Sindhi Hindus are
Sindhis
Sindhis ( sd, سنڌي Perso-Arabic: सिन्धी Devanagari; ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the province of Sindh in Pakistan. After the partition of British Indian empire in 1947, man ...
who follow the
Hindu religion, whose origins lie in the
Sindh region and spread across modern-day
India
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and
Pakistan
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i
Sindh province. 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. Some later emigrated from the subcontinent and settled in other parts of the world.
According to the
2017 census, there are 3.35 million Sindhi Hindus residing within the Sindh province of Pakistan with major population centers being
Mirpur Khas Division and
Hyderabad Division that combined account for more than 2 million of them.
Meanwhile, the 2011 census listed 1.74 million speakers of Sindhi in India,
a number that does not include Sindhi Hindus who no longer speak the Sindhi language. The vast majority of
Sindhi Hindus
Sindhi Hindus are Sindhis who follow the Hindu religion, whose origins lie in the Sindh region and spread across modern-day India and Pakistani Sindh province. After the Partition of India in 1947, many Sindhi Hindus were among those who f ...
living in India belong to the
Lohana ''
jāti'', which includes the sub-groups of
Amil and
Bhaiband
Bhaiband, meaning “brotherhood”, are a Hindu jāti within the Sindhi caste of India and Pakistan.
History
The Sindh region was ruled by various Muslim dynasties from 711 until the conquest by the British in 1843, when it became a part of Bom ...
.
Hinduism in Sindh
Hinduism in the Sindh region, as in other areas of the
Indian Subcontinent, is a native religion of Sindhi people, although in pre-Islamic Sindh, Buddhists were the majority in urban areas. After many unsuccessful raids in 712CE army of
Umayyad Caliphate led by
Muhammad Bin Qasim successfully invaded Sindh against the last
Hindu king of Sindh
Raja Dahir.
Sindh came under control of Qasim after he defeated Raja Dahir and native religions like Hinduism and Buddhism started declining. In the reign of Delhi Sultanate,
Hinduism and Buddhism declined very much in this area and became minority religion. Today there are more than 7 million Sindhi Hindus in the Sindh region.
Partition of India
After the
partition of India in 1947, an estimated half of Sindh's Hindus migrated to
India
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, mainly forced by the
religious-based persecution of the time. They settled primarily in neighbouring
Kutch district of
Gujarat, which bears linguistic and cultural similarities to Sindh, and the city of
Bombay. As per Census of India 2011, there are around 1,741,662 Sindhi speakers living in India (not counting
Kutchi speakers, who are sometimes seen as speaking a Sindhi dialect). There are also sizable Sindhi Hindu communities elsewhere in the world, sometimes termed, the '
Sindhi diaspora'.
Family Names
Conventions
Most Sindhi Hindu family names are a modified form of a
patronymic and typically end with the suffix ''"-ani"'', which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a
Sindhi
Sindhi may refer to:
*something from, or related to Sindh, a province of Pakistan
* Sindhi people, an ethnic group from the Sindh region
* Sindhi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
People with the name
* Sarkash Sindhi (1940–2012 ...
variant of 'anshi', derived from the
Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from' (see:
Devanshi). The first part of a Sindhi Hindu surname is usually derived from the name or location of an ancestor. In northern Sindh, surnames ending in 'ja' (meaning 'of') are also common. A person's surname would consist of the name of his or her native village, followed by 'ja'. The Sindhi Hindus generally add the suffix ‘-ani’ to the name of a great-grandfather and adopt the name as a family name.
Surnames
Notable Sindhi Hindus
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Raja Dahir, the last Hindu king of
Sindh
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Jimmi Harkishin, British Asian actor
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Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor
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Aftab Shivdasani, Indian film actor.
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Asrani, Indian comedian and actor.
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Anant Balani, Indian film Director.
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Nikhil Advani, Indian movie director and screenwriter.
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Pankaj Advani, 23 times world champion in snooker and billiards from India.
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in India.
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Dr Gurmukh Das Jagwani, former
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Rana Bhagwandas, Judge on the
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Bhai Pratap Dialdas, freedom fighter, businessman, philanthropist
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Jairamdas Daulatram
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Khialdas Fani
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Sobho Gianchandani
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Hari Harilela, Indian businessman based in Hong Kong
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Motilal Jotwani
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Jayant Kripalani
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J. B. Kripalani
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Krishna Kripalani
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, freedom fighter, author and parliamentarian.
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Binatone.
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Ishwardas Rohani, Indian politician and former Speaker of
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, Indian music director.
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Sadhana Shivdasani
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Ranveer Singh
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G. P. Sippy, Bollywood movie producer and director.
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, Bollywood movie producer and director.
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Anjana Sukhani
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Notes
References
Sources
* Bherumal Mahirchand Advani, "Amilan-jo-Ahwal" - published in Sindhi, 1919
* Amilan-jo-Ahwal (1919) - translated into English in 2016 ("A History of the Amils") a
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