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  2. Sindhis - Wikipedia

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    In Pakistan, Sindhi is the first language of 30.26 million people, or 14.6% of the country's population as of the 2017 census. 29.5 million of these are found in Sindh, where they account for 62% of the total population of the province.

  3. History of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    Sindhi support for the Pakistan Movement arose from the desire of the Sindhi Muslim business class to drive out their Hindu competitors. [118] The Muslim League's rise to becoming the party with the strongest support in Sindh was in large part linked to its winning over of the religious pir families. [119]

  4. List of Sindhi tribes - Wikipedia

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    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'. [9 ...

  5. Culture of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    The roots of Sindhi culture go back to the distant past. Archaeological research during the 19th and 20th centuries showed the roots of social life, religion, and culture of the people of the Sindh: their agricultural practises, traditional arts and crafts, customs and traditions, and other parts of social life, going back to a mature Indus Valley Civilization of the third millennium BC.

  6. Pathans of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    Sindhi Pathan (Sindhi: پٺاڻ) or Pathans in Sindh are the name of ancestral Pashtun communities living in Sindh for centuries that have adopted the norms and culture of Sindh. Many bear the tribes Tareen, Naghar, Agha, and Kakar. The vast majority of Sindhi Pathans originate from Quetta and southern Afghanistan, and a few come from Khyber ...

  7. Sindhi Hindus - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of Sindhi people - Wikipedia

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    7.1 Pakistan. 7.2 India. ... View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... The following is a list of notable Sindhi people who have origins in the ...

  9. Sindhi nationalism - Wikipedia

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    It was founded by G. M. Syed in 1972 to separate Sindh from Pakistan. [1] Sindhi separatists believe that the Sindhi people suffer from disenfranchisement at the hands of Pakistan's Punjabi majority. [4] In 1972 G.M Syed, The considered founder of Sindhi nationalism formed an organization Jeay Sindh Mahaz. Later JSM divided into many factions.