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t. 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 ...
The name Sindhi is derived from the Sanskrit Sindhu, which translates as "river" or "sea body"; the Greeks used the term "Indos" [29] to refer to the Indus River and the surrounding region, which is where Sindhi is spoken. [citation needed] The historical spelling "Sind" (from the Perso-Arabic سند) was discontinued in 1988 by an amendment ...
Sindhi (/ ˈsɪndi / SIN-dee; [3] Sindhi: سِنڌِي (Perso-Arabic) or सिन्धी (Devanagari), pronounced [sɪndʱiː]) [a] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status. It is also spoken by a further 1.7 million people in India, where it is a ...
Jhulelal, the Ishtadevata of the Sindhi Hindus.. Sindhi Hindus are Sindhis who follow Hinduism.They are spread across modern-day Sindh, Pakistan, and India.After the partition of India in 1947, many Sindhi Hindus were among those who fled from Pakistan to the dominion of India, in what was a wholesale exchange of Hindu and Muslim populations in some areas.
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.
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.
The history of Sindh refers to the history of the modern-day Pakistani province of Sindh, as well as neighboring regions that periodically came under its sway. Sindh was the site of one of the Cradle of civilizations, the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilisation that flourished from about 3000 B.C. and declined rapidly 1,000 years later, following ...
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 ...