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  2. Adamjee Haji Dawood - Wikipedia

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    Adamjee Haji Dawood was born in 1880 in Jetpur, Kathiawar, Gujarat in British India in a Memon family. [1] While still in his teens, he ventured out to Burma and started operating as an independent businessman. The first few years of his career were spent in the rice, match-book-making for lighting home stoves and jute trade.

  3. Sindhi literature - Wikipedia

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    e. Sindhi literature (Sindhi: سنڌي ادب) is the collection of oral and written literature in the Sindhi language in prose (romantic tales and epic stories) and poetry (ghazals and nazm). The Sindhi language of the province of Sindh in Pakistan is considered one of the oldest languages of ancient India, and influenced the language of Indus ...

  4. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai - Wikipedia

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    Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (Sindhi: شاه عبداللطيف ڀٽائي ‎; 1689/1690 – 21 December 1752), commonly known by the honorifics Lakhino Latif, Latif Ghot, Bhittai, and Bhit Jo Shah, was a Sindhi Sufi mystic and poet from Pakistan, widely considered to be the greatest poet of the Sindhi language.

  5. Institute of Sindhology - Wikipedia

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    The myth included that the Sindhi language was the progenitor of Sanskrit; Sindhi researchers routinely based the starting point of their work on the Indus Valley Civilisation. [ 2 ] In 1964, the name of the Sindhi Academy was changed to the Institute of Sindhology, probably to give the research subject a gloss that accorded it similar academic ...

  6. Sindhi folk tales - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Sindhi folktales ( Sindhi: لوڪ سنڌي آکاڻيون) play an important part in the culture of the Sindhi people of southern Pakistan. Pakistan's Sindh province abounds in fairy-tales and folktales that form its folklore. Some of these folktales ( قصا ۽ ڪٿائون) are particularly important for the development of higher ...

  7. Sindhi Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Launched. 6 February 2006; 18 years ago (2006-02-06) The Sindhi Wikipedia (Sindhi: سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا) is a free encyclopedia, started 6 February 2006. It is the Sindhi language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has 18,040 articles. [1][2] Since 2014, the encyclopedia has experienced an overall increase in content.

  8. Culture of Sindh - Wikipedia

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    The roots of Sindhi culture go back to the distant past. Archaeological research during the 19th and 20th centuries showed the roots of social life, religion, and culture of the people of the Sindh: their agricultural practises, traditional arts and crafts, customs and traditions, and other parts of social life, going back to a mature Indus Valley Civilization of the third millennium BC.

  9. Sindhology - Wikipedia

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    Sindhology (Sindhi: سنڌيات‎) is a field of South Asian studies and academic research that covers the history, society, culture, literature and people of Sindh, Pakistan. The subject was first brought into the academic circles with the establishment of the Institute of Sindhology at Sindh University in 1964. Since then, it has developed ...