The Sindhi diaspora consists of Sindhi people who have emigrated from the historical Sindh province of British India,[1] as well as the modern Sindh province of Pakistan,[2] to other countries and regions of the world, as well as their descendants.
Apart from the Indian subcontinent, there is a large and well-established community of Sindhis throughout different continents of the world including Malaysia, Oman, Singapore, UAE, USA and UK[3] where they have established themselves as a trade diaspora.[4][5]
Earliest groups of Sindhis came to the island of British Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) estimated two centuries ago in hopes for business and trade.[7] A majority of them had migrated from Hyderabad city of Sindh via the Arabian Sea,[8] and most were Hindus who had come for business.[9][10]
Foreign lands
Outside the subcontinent, it is estimated that around 24,000 Sindhi of Afghanistan are part of a much larger Sindhi people group. Almost all of the Sindhis in Afghanistan are Hanafite Muslim.[11]
Malta has a small, established Sindhi trading community of about 45 families (200 people) of shop-keepers from Hyderabad, Sindh (in present-day Pakistan) rooted in a migration which began around 1887.
^Markovits, Claude (22 June 2000). The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama. Cambridge University Press. p. 277. ISBN9781139431279. The partition of British India brought in its wake a large-scale exodus of non-Muslims from Sind to independent India.
^Rajpar, Mushtaq (10 August 2017). "The Sindhi diaspora". The News International. Retrieved 28 January 2018. Sindhis living abroad have attempted to have an organised one voice for decades. In many ways those who migrate from Sindh to North America remain connected to and deeply concerned about Sindh.
^Sindhi, people. "Sindhi diaspora". Retrieved 16 October 2014.
^Service, Tribune News. "'The Sindhis — Selling Anything, Anywhere' is story of the quintessential Sindhi businessman". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
^"For Sindhis, Partition Meant Loss of a Homeland, of a Culture and a Language". The Wire. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
^"2011 Indian Census" (PDF).
^Nazim, Aisha. "Why the Partition of India was a tectonic event for Sri Lankan Sindhis". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
^"The story of the Lankan Sindhis". Hindustan Times. 2009-10-20. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
^"Proud of their heritage; proud to be Lankans". The Sunday Times Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
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