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According to the census of India 1951, nearly 776,000 Sindhi Hindus were forced to migrate to India to avoid conversion to Islam. [9] Despite this migration of Hindus, a significant Sindhi Hindu population still resides in Pakistan's Sindh province where they numbered around 2.28 million in 1998 [ 10 ] and 4.21 million as per the 2017 census of ...
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'.
Soomro (Sindhi: سومرو , Devanagari: सूमरो), Soomra, Sumrah or Sumra is a tribe having a local origin in Sindh.They are found in Sindh, parts of Punjab especially bordering Sindh, Balochistan province, and the Kutch district of the Indian state of Gujarat and also Rajasthan.
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.
After the partition of India in 1947, about half of the Sindhi Hindu community had to migrate to the Dominion of India from the Dominion of Pakistan.As of the 2011 census, there were about 2.7 million Sindhis living in the Republic of India settled mostly in Western states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
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.
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.
The Sindhi Wikipedia (Sindhi: سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا) is a free encyclopedia, started 6 February 2006. It is the Sindhi language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has 18,543 articles. [1] [2] Since 2014, the encyclopedia has experienced an overall increase in content. [3]