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 Till
the time of King Jayadarth [Mahabharat era]
inhabiting population of Sind being called as
Sindhi, was mainly of the follower of Vedic
[Hindu] religious life style. As the land went
under rule of various dynasties with different
religious faiths hence the indigenous
population was affected from the disciples of
that religious faith. There was an
infiltration of migrated population of Rajputs
[Yadav & Parwar], Jatts, Baluchi, Arabs,
Persians, Turk & Mugals and most of them got
accustomed with social life of Sindhi, this
might be the reason for the recognition of
Shah Abdul Latif as one of greatest sindhi
poet. It was time of rule by Mohamad Bin Qasim
and period after that Islam also become a
dominating factor in the religious world of
Sind and as a fact in the present times in the
Pakistan there is higher population of Sindhi
Muslims over the Sindhi Hindus, where as in
rest of entire world most of the Sindhi
population is of Sindhi Hindus. During the
times of Sikh Guru, Dhan Sri Guru Nanak Dev
sahib Sindhis were highly influenced with the
religious thinking and ideology of Guru Sahib,
might the resemblance with Hindu life style
was the reason for that because it is a
historic fact that in those times Islam was
under propagation in Sind under the shadows of
sword. The natural result is that though
present Sindhi are looking at
Lal Sain Uderolal [Jhulelal] as their
deity but still recitation of Gurbani is the
part of daily life for many Sindhi families
and Guru Nanak Jayanti is among the most
celebrated religious Sindhi festivals. After
the partition in the year 1947 Sindhis along
with Punjabis have been forced to migrate to
India as situations at that time were not
suggesting for being favorable for a future
religious freedom in that part globe, though a
considerable population of Sindhis was forced
to stay there only due to the fact that
historically sindhi cultural have roots with
the river Sindhu. Barring a selective chunk
who is still Hindu, majority of this Sindhi
population has adopted Islam. In the religious
world of migrated Sindhi, settled in India and
other parts of the globe some Hindu based
religious panths like Prem Prakash Mandal,
Sant Mirankari Mission, Radhaswami started to
be religious faith for considerable Sindhi
population [For details visit
Religious faiths].
Sindhi Language
Sindhi language is one among the Indo-European
language which has a close resemblance with
Arabi in script of writing [with 52 alphabets,
written from right to left] and Sanskrit, Urdu
and Hindi in spoken styles. After the
independence from the British rule, especially
in India there is a dispute over the script of
Sindhi language as the interim at present for
Sindhi language Arabic and Devnagiri scripts
are used. Sindhi speaking population can be
observed through out the world though the
majority of population is with Sind
[Pakistan], Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh and the Union Territory of
Delhi [India], Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan,
the Gulf countries [Asia region] beside that
various cities in America, Australia, UK and
South Africa also have considerable population
of Sindhi speakers. Common spoken Sindhi is
“Vicholi” dialect; other five dominating
dialects of spoken Sindhi language are Siraiki,
Lari, Lasi, Thari or Thareli and Kachhi.
Leave apart the religious faith but this is
fact that including the Sindhi Muslims almost
80% of population is Sind is of Sindhi
speakers and this is an interesting fact that
after independence till 1972 official language
of Sind was not the Sindhi but Urdu which was
spoken by population less than 10% of total
population. Sindhis of Sind Pakistan, who at
the time of independence opted to stay on the
land of Pakistan, are feeling cheated and
most worried by the dominating status and
preference given to immigrant Urdu speaking
Muslims being called as Muhajir and probably
these are reasons for the movements like “Jiye
Sind”. According to reports of World Sindhi
Congress, Sindhi students are finding hard to
get admission in Karachi University, which was
among the major Sindhi educational
institutions in the pre independence era.
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