Sind

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Sind was part of the Bombay Presidency during the British period. It is now a province in Pakistan.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Sind/Sindh
Other spellings: Sinde, Scinde

Status

  • 1843 to 1847 - Province
  • 1847 to 1936 - Division of Bombay Presidency.
  • 1936 to 1947 - Province

Capital

Cities and Towns

Districts

For districts during the British period see article Bombay Districts.
The following are modern districts:

Princely State

Military history

External Links

Sind Province "Wikipedia"
Sindh "wikipedia"
Panhwar.com a website about Sindh. Contains links to rare books to download, and to many articles, including two on maps called Historical Maps of Sindh and Maps of Sindh

Historical books online

  • Collection of books on Sind panhwar.com
  • Another collection of books panhwar.com
  • A Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by AW Hughes 1876 Archive.org
  • The following volumes are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website: Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by EH Aitken 1907. This contains matters of a permanent character and general interest. ('A' volume) There are also additional 'B' volumes (probably seven) containing statistical tables and matters of local interest, published in 1919 and 1926-1928. The first six are available to read online on DLI
Volume I- Karachi District, 1919, Volume II- Hyderabad District 1927, Volume III -Sukkur District 1928 (catalogued as b vol.iii (karachi district)), Volume IV- Larkana District 1927, Volume V- Nawabshah District 1926, Volume VI-Thar and Parkar District 1926 (Not available online: B Volume VII Upper Sind Frontier District, but it is probably available at the British Library).