SINDH

SINDH is a province of Pakistan extends from Beluchistan and Punjab (N.) to the Indian Ocean and Runn of Cutch (S.); traversed by the Indus, whose delta it includes, and whose broad alluvial valley-tracts yield abundant
crops of wheat, barley, hemp, rice, cotton, etc., which are exported, and give employment to the majority of the people; N. and E. are wide stretches of desert-land, and in the S. are the Hala Mountains. The chief city and port is Karachi.

Formerly, it was annexed to the British possessions after the victories of Sir Charles Napier in 1843. It remained part of British India until independence of India and its partition in 1947.