Institute of Sindhology

The desire to promote a cohesive Sindhi identity, in opposition to the monolithic West Pakistan province, spread through a student and academic population which had significantly increased in number and it led to several defining events at the University of Sindh.

As a part of a socio-political movement there was a desire to research, preserve, promote and create Sindhi culture in language, literature, film and art.

Much of this was underpinned by the myth of origin, propagated by researchers, that there was a recognisable and continuous Sindhi culture stretching over 5000 years from Mohenjo-Daro.

[2] In 1964, the name of the Sindhi Academy was changed to the Institute of Sindhology, probably to give the research subject a gloss that accorded it academic status similar to those of Egyptology or at least Indology.

Internally, the building is decorated with local Hala tile-work, with two arms accommodating the Research Library and Administration Block.

[citation needed] Within the institute, the Anthropological Research Center and Sindh Arts Gallery is responsible for the maintenance of the museum.

[citation needed] More than 185 books have been published by the Institute, in Sindhi, English, Urdu, Arabic and Punjabi languages.