Sindhis in India

Sindhis in India
Total population
2,772,364 (2011 census)
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Religion
Hinduism
Minority: Sikhism · Christianity · Islam
  • ^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 (Devanagari: सिन्धी, Sindhī, Naskh script: سنڌي) refer to a socio-ethnic group of Sindhi 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. As per the 2011 census of India, there are 2,772,364 Sindhi speakers in the Indian Republic. However, this number does not include ethnic Sindhis who no longer speak the language and also includes Kutchis who may not identify as ethnic Sindhis (especially those in Gujarat).

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