Sindh

**Sindh** () () is a province in Pakistan. The provincial capital of Sindh is Karachi. Sindh has a population of 47.9 million people and an area of 54,407 mi² or (140,914 km²). The provincial region of Sindh is larger than Greece but smaller than Tajikistan,

## Etymology

The Pakistani province of **Sindh** and the people inhabiting the region had been designated after the river known in Ancient times as the Sindhus River, now also known by Indus River. In Sanskrit, Sindhu means "river, stream". However, the importance of the river and close phonetically resemblance in nomenclature would make one consider Sindhu as the probable origin of the name of Sindh. Later on phonetically changes transformed Sindhu into Hindu in Old Persian. The Ancient Greeks of Macedon who conquered Sindh Valley region of **Modern Pakistan** in 325 BC under the command of Alexander the Great _“(Sikandar-e-Azam)”_ rendered it as Indu, or Indós, hence the modern **Indus**, when the British colonists arrived and conquered Southern Asia, in the 17th Century AD as part of their Indian Imperial Empire of South Asia; they expanded the term and applied the name to the entire region of South Asia and called it **“India”** by following that regional example and formally applied the Greek name for Sindh under her entire domain of the Raj respectively. The ancient Iranians referred to everything east of the river Indus as Hind from the word Sind respectively. Southworth suggests that the name _Sindhu_ is in turn derived from _Cintu_, a Dravidian word for Date palm, a tree commonly found in Sindh. A study said, the Ancient Gypsy hail from Sindh from the Rohri Taluka in the Sukkur District

### Controversy

On the 3rd of January in 2005, as a formal complaint by the **Federal Government of Pakistan**; calls upon the so-called Government of India to review that there were demands to delete the requested word "Sind" and substitute it with the even the controversial word Kashmir, which by in itself is an contested buffer region between the two bitterly. The argument was that Sindh was and is still historically India by name and civilisation and is no longer now a part of the modern so-called Republic of India having seceded the former Empire, it thereby as a result having become part of Pakistan in the formal Indian Partition of 1947. Opponents of this proposal hold that the word "Sind" refers to the Indus and Sindhi culture and that Sindhis in India are a part of India's cultural fabric. The Supreme Court of India declined to change the national anthem and the wording remains unchanged.

On the 17th of December in 2013, MLA of Assam, Phani Bhushan Choudhury cited an article in _The Times of India_ published on 26 January 1950, stating that originally the word "Kamarup" was included in the song, but was later changed to "Sindhu" and claimed that Kamarup should be re-included. To this, the then minister Rockybul Hussain replied that the state government would initiate steps in this regard after a response from the newspaper. The debate was further joined by the then minister Ardhendu Dey, mentioning "Sanchayita" (edited by Tagore himself) etc. where he said Kamarup was not mentioned.

## History

Sindh () is one of the provinces of Pakistan. Sindh was home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, the Indus Valley Civilization which is 5,500 years old 'Hind'  word is also derived from the words 'Sindh' and while its worth noting that Hind was known because of Sind by the early Persian and Arabs '. On the 26th of June in 1947 _Sindh_ joined **Pakistan** by a majority vote of members of the 1947 provincial legislature.

|**Provincial flag**|||
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|Flag of Sindh|||
|Emblem of Sindh|||
|**Provincial animal**|Sindh Ibex||
|**Provincial bird**|Black wood partridge||
|Catla|||
|Cotton|||
|**Provincial flower**|Nelumbo indica||
|**Provincial tree**|Neem||
|Watermelons|||
|Sindhi biryani|||
|Sufi dance|||
|Yaktaro|||
|Malakhra|||

## Related pages

- List of heads of state of Sindhistan

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Sindh
- **native name**: سنڌ
سندھ
- **native name lang**: sd
- **type**: Province of Pakistan
- **image skyline**: Ranikot Fort wall and bastion.jpg
- **image caption**: Ranikot Fort "(Great Wall of Pakistan)".
- **image flag**: Flag_of_Sindh.svg
- **image seal**: Coat of arms of Sindh Province.svg
- **image map**: Sindh in Pakistan (claims hatched).svg
- **map caption**: Location of Sindh in Pakistan
- **image map1**: Pakistan Sindh location map3.svg
- **map caption1**: Map of Sindh, Pakistan
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **subdivision name**: Pakistan
- **parts style**: para
- **parts type**: Largest city
- **p1**: Karachi
- **established title**: Established
- **established date**: 1 July 1970
- **seat type**: Capital
- **seat**: Karachi
- **blank name sec1**: Languages of Pakistan, Main Language(s)
- **blank info sec1**: Other: Punjabi language, Punjabi, Pashto language, Pashto, Balochi language, Balochi, Saraiki language, Saraiki
- **blank name sec2**: Assembly seats
- **blank info sec2**: 168
- **blank1 name sec2**: Districts of Pakistan, Districts
- **blank1 info sec2**: 27
- **blank2 name sec2**: Towns
- **blank2 info sec2**: 119
- **blank3 name sec2**: Union Councils of Pakistan, Union Councils
- **blank3 info sec2**: 1108
- **government type**: Province
- **governing body**: Provincial Assembly
- **leader title**: Governor
- **leader title4**: High Courts of Pakistan, High Court
- **leader name4**: Sindh High Court
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 140,914
- **population total**: 55,245,497
- **population as of**: 2012 census preliminary
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Time in Pakistan, PKT
- **utc offset1**: +5
- **website**: [http://www.sindh.gov.pk sindh.gov.pk]