Sindhi diaspora

Apart from the Indian subcontinent, Sindhi communities exist in Malaysia, Oman, Singapore, UAE, USA and UK,[citation needed] where they have established themselves as a trade diaspora.

As of the 2011[update] census, there were about 2.7 million Sindhis living in the Republic of India settled mostly in Western states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

[5] 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.

[6] A majority of them had migrated from Hyderabad city of Sindh via the Arabian Sea,[7] and most were Hindus who had come for business.

Malta 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.