Sindhis in India

Sindhis in India
Total population
	2,772,364 (2011 census)
Regions with significant populations
	Gujarat; Maharashtra; Rajasthan; Madhya Pradesh; Chhattisgarh; Delhi; Uttar Pradesh; Assam; Karnataka; Andhra Pradesh; Goa; various other locations;
Languages
	Sindhi; Hindi; English; others;
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 (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.

^ ^a ^b Data on Language and Mother Tongue. "Census of India 2011" (PDF). p. 7.
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ Urvashi Butalia (24 February 2015). Partition: The Long Shadow. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-93-5118-949-7.
^ "Sindhi Voices from the Partition". The HeritageLab.in. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
^ Rita Kothari, Burden of population: Sindh, Gujarat, Partition, Orient Blackswan
^ Nil (June 4, 2012). "Who orchestrated the exodus of Sindhi Hindus after Partition?". tribune.com.pk. The Express Tribune. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
^ NANDITA BHAVNANI (2014). THE MAKING OF EXILE: SINDHI HINDUS AND THE PARTITION OF INDIA. ISBN 978-93-84030-33-9.

[:0-1] Data on Language and Mother Tongue. "Census of India 2011" (PDF). p. 7.

[in-2] 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.

[Butalia2015-4] 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.

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Total population
2,772,364 (2011 census)^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Gujarat Maharashtra Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh Delhi Uttar Pradesh Assam Karnataka Andhra Pradesh Goa various other locations
Languages
Sindhi Hindi^[2] English^[2] others
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.