Sindh
Sindh
سنڌ سندھ | |
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| Coordinates: 24°52′12″N 67°33′00″E / 24.87000°N 67.55000°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Established | 1 July 1970 |
| Capital | Karachi |
| Largest city | Karachi |
| Government | |
| • Type | Province |
| • Body | Provincial Assembly |
| • High Court | Sindh High Court |
| Area | |
| • Total | 140,914 km2 (54,407 sq mi) |
| Population (2012 census preliminary)[1] | |
| • Total | 55,245,497 |
| • Density | 390/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PKT) |
| Main Language(s) | Other: Punjabi, Pashto, Balochi, Saraiki[2][3][4] |
| Assembly seats | 168[5] |
| Districts | 27 |
| Towns | 119 |
| Union Councils | 1108[6] |
| Website | sindh.gov.pk |
Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ) (Urdu: صوبہ سندھ) 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
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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[7]
Controversy
[change | change source]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"[a] 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[b] 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.[8]
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.[9] To this, the then minister Rockybul Hussain replied that the state government would initiate steps in this regard after a response from the newspaper.[9] 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.[9]
History
[change | change source]Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ) 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[10] '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 [11]'. On the 26th of June in 1947 Sindh joined Pakistan by a majority vote of members of the 1947 provincial legislature.
| Provincial flag | Flag of Sindh |  |
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| Provincial seal | Emblem of Sindh | |
| Provincial animal | Sindh Ibex |  |
| Provincial bird | Black wood partridge |  |
| Provincial fish | Catla |  |
| Provincial crop | Cotton |  |
| Provincial flower | Nelumbo indica | |
| Provincial tree | Neem |  |
| Provincial fruit | Watermelons |  |
| Provincial dish | Sindhi biryani |  |
| Provincial dance | Sufi dance |  |
| Provincial instrument | Yaktaro | |
| Provincial sport | Malakhra | .jpg){kind=small} |
Related pages
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Media related to Sindh at Wikimedia Commons
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Sind - type and level of administrative division". World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ↑ "Percentage Distribution of Households by Language Usually Spoken and Region/Province, 1998 Census" (PDF). Pakistan Statistical Year Book 2008. Federal Bureau of Statistics - Government of Pakistan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
- ↑ "Sindh (province, Pakistan)" at Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ↑ "About Sindh Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine" at SindhToday.net
- ↑ "Provincial Assembly Seats". Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ↑ "Government of Sindh". Archived from the original on 2019-06-16. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ↑ HYDERABAD: Gypsies hail from Sindh, claims Dr Kazi
- ↑ Shan, Kohli (2010). "Parody of National Anthem: Ram Gopal Varma Ki Nayi Aag" (PDF). NUJS Law Review. 3 (2).
- 1 2 3 "State to seek newspaper clarification on report. Staff Reporter. Assam Tribune, 17-12-2013". Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ↑ https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/ancient-india/a/the-indus-river-valley-civilizations#:~:text=There%20is%20evidence%20of%20settlement,from%201900%20to%201300%20BCE.
- ↑ https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/hind
Other websites
[change | change source]- "Sindh at a glance". Pakistan Almanac.
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- ↑ From the Sanskrit term Sindhu. Historical Romanization of Sindh, referring to the Sind province of British India.
- ↑ Indus (Sindhu), flows through Ladakh Wazarat in Northern Pakistan Upper Indus Valley.
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