Sind | |||||
Province of British India (1936–47) Province of Pakistan (1947–55) |
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Map of Pakistan highlighting Sind's borders, unchanging during 1936-1955 | |||||
Capital | Karachi | ||||
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• | Renaming of Sind Division | 1 April 1936 | |||
• | Province of Pakistan | 14 August 1947 | |||
• | Disestablished | 14 October 1955 | |||
Area | 123,080 km2(47,521 sq mi) | ||||
Government of Sindh |
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Sind was a province of British India from 1936 to 1947 and Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. Under the British, it encompassed the current territorial limits excluding the princely state of Khairpur with the capital at Karachi. After Pakistan's creation, the province lost the city of Karachi, as it became the capital of the newly created country.
The province was bordered by Karachi (within The Federal Capital Territory after 1948) and the princely states of Las Bela and Kalat on the west. To the north were the provinces of Baluchistan and West Punjab. The province bordered the princely state of Bahawalpur on the northeast and it enclosed on three sides the princely state of Khairpur. The nation of India's states of Rajasthan and Gujarat bordered to the east and south. On the southwest lay the Arabian Sea, with the Sind's coastline consisting entirely of river deltas, including the Indus River Delta up to Sind's border with the city of Karachi, now the capital of modern Sindh.