Sindhi diaspora
Ethnic Sindhis and their descendants living outside of the Sindh province of Pakistan
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Through Pakistan, Indian subcontinent and Singapore
Apart from the Indian subcontinent, Sindhi communities exist in Malaysia, Oman, Singapore, UAE, USA and UK, where they have established themselves as a trade diaspora.
India
After the partition of India in 1947, about half of the Sindhi Hindu community had to migrate to the Dominion of India from the Dominion of Pakistan. As of the 2011 census, there were about 2.7 million Sindhis living in the Republic of India settled mostly in Western states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
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Sri Lanka
Earliest groups of Sindhis came to the island of British Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) estimated two centuries ago in hopes for business and trade. A majority of them had migrated from Hyderabad city of Sindh via the Arabian Sea, and most were Hindus who had come for business.
Foreign lands
Outside the subcontinent, it is estimated that around 24,000 Sindhi of Afghanistan are part of a much larger Sindhi people group. Almost all of the Sindhis in Afghanistan are Hanafite Muslim.
There is also a sizeable overseas population of Sindhis in the United Kingdom and United States, other populations include in Australia and Canada.
Kenya has a small, established Sindhi trading community of about 45 families (200 people) of shop-keepers from Hyderabad, Sindh (in present-day Pakistan) rooted in a migration which began around 1887.