Sindhis in India

Sindhis in India
Total population
2,772,364 (2011 census)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Religion
Hinduism
Minority: Sikhism · Christianity[3] · Islam[4]
  • ^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, originating from Sindh (a province of modern-day Pakistan). After the 1947 Partition of India into the dominions of new Muslim-majority Pakistan and remaining Hindu-majority India, a million non-Muslim Sindhis migrated to independent India.[5][6][7][8] As per the 2011 census of India, there are 2,772,364 Sindhi speakers in the Indian Republic.[1] However, this number does not include ethnic Sindhis who no longer speak the language.

  1. ^ a b Data on Language and Mother Tongue. "Census of India 2011" (PDF). p. 7.
  2. ^ a b Iyengar, Arvind; Parchani, Sundri (2021). "Like Community, Like Language: Seventy-Five Years of Sindhi in Post-Partition India". Journal of Sindhi Studies. 1: 1–32. doi:10.1163/26670925-bja10002. S2CID 246551773. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  3. ^ Tare, Kiran (24 February 2010). "Sindhi conversions in Ulhasnagar raise a storm". DNA India. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  4. ^ Urvashi Butalia (24 February 2015). Partition: The Long Shadow. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-93-5118-949-7.
  5. ^ "Sindhi Voices from the Partition". The HeritageLab.in. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. ^ Rita Kothari, Burden of population: Sindh, Gujarat, Partition, Orient Blackswan
  7. ^ Nil (June 4, 2012). "Who orchestrated the exodus of Sindhi Hindus after Partition?". tribune.com.pk. The Express Tribune. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  8. ^ NANDITA BHAVNANI (2014). THE MAKING OF EXILE: SINDHI HINDUS AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA. ISBN 978-93-84030-33-9.