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Origin
The original inhabitants of the old Sindh were believed to be primeval tribes speaking dialects of the Indus valley civilization around 3300BC. The largest settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization was Moen-jo-Daro.

However in 1700 BC, the Indus Valley Civilization went into decline for unknown reasons. It is believed that the Indo-Aryans founded the Vedic Civilization which existed around 1500 BC between the Ganges river and the Saraswati river. This Civilization helped formulate subsequent cultures in South Asia.

The Partition period
At the time of independence on 14th August 1947 from the British, there was geographical separation of India and Pakistan wherein majority of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan migrated to India. The Hindu Sindhis on the other hand, were supposed to stay there as they had good relations with Muslim Sindhis. During the partition, Sindh was not affected with bloodshed. However, there was loss of family members, wealth and ancestral homeland when the mass exodus of the Hindu Sindhis was taking place from Sindh to India. There were Refugee camps set up for the Hindu Sindhis by the government. The resettlement was in various places namely Adipur, Ahmedabad, Gandhidham, Ulhasnagar, Sindhi Colony in Bangalore, Sindhi Colony in Hyderabad. There is significant Sindhi Hindu population residing  in Pakistan’s Sindh province despite the migration which was numbered around 2.28 million in 1998.

In 1967, the Sindhi language was recognized as a fifteenth official language of India by the Government of India.

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