“Portrait of a Remarkable Community,” review of Mark-Anthony Falzon’s Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, 1860-2000

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global community of Hindus with origins in what is today Pakistan, the Sindhis are a remarkable people by any accounting. Unlike trading diasporas from other parts of the subcontinent, they are not heir to a long tradition of commerce overseas, having taken up the practice only after their forcible displacement from Sindh during the partition of British India...