Are all Sindhis Hindus?

Most Sindhis are Muslim, but before the creation of India and Pakistan some 20\% of the Sindhi population was Hindu. In 1947, when the successor states to British India gained their independence, there was a mass exodus of Hindu Sindhis to India.

What is the category of Sindhi?

Sindhi is not a caste and it is a group of sindhi hindus who emigrated from sindh to india and they have people belonging to varnas of hindu religion including brahmin,kshatriya and vaishyas. And sindhi saraswat brahmin find their roots from sindh.

Does Sindhi belong to OBC?

As per the current guidelines of Government of India Sindhi are in General category. In various state of India Sindhi are demanding for OBC cast reservation, which is yet not granted by the government.

Why are there so many non-sindhs in Sindh?

Sindh didnt see any riots during the partition so half of them remained in Sindh. Many non Sindhi Muslims flocked Sindh and thus now 40\% of Sindhs population is not Sindhi. Sindh still has 4 million Hindus and they make up 8\% of the total provincial population.

Is Sindhi a Hindu religion?

Sindhis are Hindu. In fact all Hindus are Sindhi. Sindhu River Valley Civilisation is very perhaps most ancient Civilisation. It was got developed along Sindhu River Vally from Kashmir to Sindh. Hence people of this area were called as ‘Sindhu people’ meaning people from Sindhu River Valley Civilisation.

How many Sindhi people are there in India?

There are about 50 million Sindhis in Sindh province of Pakistan and about 2.5 million in India. Their main pilgrimage centres are Nankana Sahib and Dehra Sahib in Punjab, and Sadh Bela near Sukkur in Sindh.

Why did Hindus migrate from Sindh to India?

After the partition of India in 1947, an estimated half of Sindh’s Hindus migrated to India, 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 Mumbai.