There are about 40 million Sindhis, with about 33 million in Pakistan, where they make up about 14.1 percent of Pakistan’s total population around 4 million in India and 340,000 in the United Arab Emirates. Many Muslims that fled India and ended in the Sindh are Urdu-speaking Muhajirs who culturally quite different from the Sindhis. Sindhi communities in India are concentrated in Delhi and the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh. The other 20 percent are mostly Hindus that live in India, migrating there from Pakistan to India after the partition India and Pakistan in 1947, when there was a mass exodus of Hindus to India and Muslims to Pakistan. They live primarily in Sindh Province and elsewhere in Pakistan. At least 80 percent of Sindhis are Muslim, mostly Sunni.
They divided into occupational and caste groupings. Sindhis (pronounced SIN-deez) are dominant in Sindh and are found throughout Pakistan. Sindh social and economic life is dominated by ruling feudals lord that included the Bhuttos. It has fewer dialects than Punjabi, uses a script similar to Urdu and has its own literary tradition. The Sindhi language is spoken by fewer than 4 percent of the population. Sindhis are the natives of the Sindh province, which includes Karachi and the southeast coast of Pakistan and a lot of desert.
