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^a The census figure only records individuals who speak Sindhi as their first language, rather than the total number of individuals of full or partial Sindhi ancestry. Sindhis in India ( Sindhi , Devanagari : सिन्धी, Sindhī , Naskh script : سنڌي) refer to a socio-ethnic group of people living in the Republic of India ...
Concentration of Sindhi speakers in Sindh and India. Sindhi Hindus were an economically prosperous community in urban Sindh before partition, [41] but due to fear of persecution on the basis of religion and after large scale arrival of Muslim refugees from India, [42] they migrated to India after partition.
Jhulelal (), the Ishta Devta of the Sindhi Hindus.. Sindhi Hindus are Sindhis who follow Hinduism.They are spread across modern-day Sindh, Pakistan and India.After the partition of India in 1947, many Sindhi Hindus were among those who fled from Pakistan to the dominion of India, in what was a wholesale exchange of Hindu and Muslim populations in some areas.
Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'.
The name "Sindhi" is derived from the Sanskrit síndhu, the original name of the Indus River, along whose delta Sindhi is spoken. [5]Like other languages of the Indo-Aryan family, Sindhi is descended from Old Indo-Aryan via Middle Indo-Aryan (Pali, secondary Prakrits, and Apabhramsha). 20th century Western scholars such as George Abraham Grierson believed that Sindhi descended specifically ...
All pages with titles beginning with Sindhi ; Sindh (disambiguation) Sindi (disambiguation) Sindia (disambiguation) Sindi people, an ancient Scythian people; Sinti, a Romani people of Central Europe; Red Sindhi, a breed of cattle; Scindia Ghat or Sindhia Ghat, riverside in Varanasi India; Scindia or Sindhia, former ruling dynasty of Gwalior, India
In this category "Sindhi tribes in India" there are those tribes of Sindh who migrated to India and live both sides of the border. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Ali S. Asani; Dadi Leela; Hassan Ali Effendi; Hotchand Gopaldas Advani; Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi; Jan Muhammad A. Memon; K.M. Kundnani; Kauromal Chandanmal Khilnani