Sindhi Australians (Sindhi: سنڌي آسٽريلين (Perso-Arabic); सिंधी आस्ट्रेलियाई (Devanagari);[2]) are Australians that have Sindhi origins. According to the SBS Australia Census Explorer, there are an estimated 2,635 Sindhis in Australia, a 65% increase since 2016,[3] mostly in areas like Sydney and Melbourne.
History
Early migrations existed before the 20th century from British India, however they were very few.[4] In 1952, Government of Pakistan gifted Australia 10 Red Sindhi bulls.[5]
Jhulelal, Gorakhnath and the Hindu Sindhi Diaspora, Anita Ray C. (2011). Journal of Oriental Society Australia
Transnational Spaces of India and Australia, Paul Sharrad, D. N. Bandyopadhyay (2022) p. 151, ISBN 9783030813246
References
^"SBS Australian Census Explorer". www.sbs.com.au. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
^Butt, Rakhio (1998). Papers on Sindhi Language & Linguistics. Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh. ISBN 9789694050508. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^"SBS Australian Census Explorer". www.sbs.com.au. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
^Jones, Philip; Kenny, Anna (2010). Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland, 1860s-1930s. Wakefield Press. ISBN 978-1-86254-872-5.
^Parsonson, Ian (2000). The Australian Ark: A History of Domesticated Animals in Australia. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 978-0-643-06567-3. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
according to Reflecting a Nation: Stories from the 2011 Census, 2012–2013 and Census of Population and Housing: Reflecting Australia - Stories from the Census, 2016
^According to the local classification, South Caucasian peoples (Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Georgians) belong not to the European but to the "Central Asian" group, despite the fact that the territory of Transcaucasia has nothing to do with Central Asia and geographically belongs mostly to Western Asia.
