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TheSindhi diaspora (Sindhi:ٻاهري ملڪي سنڌي) consists ofSindhi people who have emigrated from the historicalSindh province ofBritish India,[1] as well as the modernSindh province ofPakistan,[2] to other countries and regions of the world, as well as their descendants.
Apart from theIndian subcontinent, Sindhi communities exist inMalaysia,Oman,Singapore,UAE,USA andUK,[citation needed] where they have established themselves as a trade diaspora.[3][4]
After thepartition of India in 1947, about half of theSindhi Hindu community had to migrate to theDominion of India from theDominion of Pakistan. As of the 2011[update] census, there were about 2.7 million Sindhis living in theRepublic of India settled mostly in Western states likeMaharashtra,Gujarat andRajasthan.[5]
Earliest groups ofSindhis came to the island ofBritish Ceylon (modern-daySri Lanka) estimated two centuries ago in hopes for business and trade.[6] A majority of them had migrated fromHyderabad city of Sindh via theArabian Sea,[7] and most wereHindus who had come for business.[8][9]
Outside the subcontinent, it is estimated that around 24,000 Sindhi ofAfghanistan are part of a much larger Sindhi people group. Almost all of the Sindhis in Afghanistan areHanafite Muslim.[citation needed]
There is also a sizeable overseas population ofSindhis in theUnited Kingdom andUnited States, other populations include inAustralia andCanada.
Kenya has a small, established Sindhi trading community of about 45 families (200 people) of shop-keepers fromHyderabad, Sindh (in present-day Pakistan) rooted in a migration which began around 1887.
The partition of British India brought in its wake a large-scale exodus of non-Muslims from Sind to independent India.
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.
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