Sind Province (1936–1955)

This article is about the former British Indian and Pakistani province of Sind. For the modern equivalent, see Sindh.

The Sind is a former province of Pakistan and British India which existed from 1936 to 1955. The province covered an area of 123,080 km² including much of the current Sindh province but excluding the Federal Capital Territory and the former princely state of Khairpur. The capital was the city of Hyderabad and the province was bordered by the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to south and east, the princely states of Bahawalpur and Khairpur to the northeast and the Federal Capital Territory and the princely states of Kalat and Las Bela to the west. On the southwest lay the Arabian Sea but the coast was mostly composed of the Indus delta.

History

On 1936-04-01 the Sind Division of Bombay Presidency became the Sind Province.

The Partition of India in 1947 led to the province of Sind becoming part of Pakistan. The province was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1955 under the One Unit policy announced by Prime Minister Chaudhry Mohammad Ali.

In 1970, the province of West Pakistan was dissolved and four new provinces were established including a new expanded Sind province which took in the former Federal Capital Territory and the princely state of Khairpur. The provincial name was slightly modified in 1990 to Sindh.

Demographics

At Partition there was a Muslim majority in Sind but with significant minorities of Hindus who were forced to leave for India, after continued massacre jointly by large numbers of muslim immigrants who spoke Urdu and military of Pakistan. The official language of Sind was Sindhi (and only Sindhi), but later, the military govt. of Pakistan closed down Sindhi schools in big cities of Sindh and replaced those with Urdu schools. Later, with the verbal orders of the military rulers, compulsory exam of written and spoken Sindhi was discontinued that was obligatory to get through for public service in Sind.

Government

The offices of Governor of Sind and Chief Minister of Sind were established in 1936 when Sind became a province. This system would continue until 1955 when Sind was dissolved.

Tenure	Governor of Sind
1 April 1936	Province of Sind established
1 April 1936 – 1 August 1938	Sir Lancelot Graham (first time)
1 August 1938 – 1 December 1938	Joseph Garrett (acting)
1 December 1938 – 1 April 1941	Sir Lancelot Graham (2nd time)
1 April 1941 – 15 January 1946	Sir Hugh Dow
15 January 1946 – 14 August 1947	Sir Robert Francis Mudie
14 August 1947	Independence of Pakistan
14 August 1947 – 4 October 1948	Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
4 October 1948 – 19 November 1952	Sheikh Din Muhammad
19 November 1952 – 1 May 1953	Mian Aminuddin
1 May 1953 – 12 August 1953	George Baxandall Constantine
12 August 1953 – 23 June 1954	Habib Ibrahim Rahmatullah
23 June 1954 – 14 October 1955	Iftikhar Hussain Khan
14 October 1955	Province of Sind dissolved

Tenure	Chief Minister of Sind	Political party
24 April 1937 – 23 March 1938	Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah	Muslim Political Party
23 March 1938 – 18 March 1940	Shaheed Allah Bux Soomro (1st time)	Ittihad (Union) Party
18 March 1940 – 7 March 1941	Mir Band-e-Ali Khan Talpur	Muslim League
7 March 1941 – 14 October 1942	Shaheed Allah Bux Soomro (2nd time)	Ittihad (Union) Party
14 October 1942 – 14 August 1947	Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah	Muslim Political Party
14 August 1947	Independence of Pakistan
14 August 1947 – 28 April 1948	Mohammad Ayub Khuhro (1st time)	Pakistan Muslim League
3 May 1948 – 4 February 1949	Pir Illahi Bakhsh	Pakistan Muslim League
18 February 1949 – 7 May 1950	Yusuf Haroon	Non-partisan
8 May 1950 – 24 March 1951	Qazi Fazlullah	Non-partisan
25 March 1951 – 29 December 1951	Mohammad Ayub Khuhro (2nd time)	Pakistan Muslim League
29 December 1951 – 22 May 1953	Governor's rule
22 May 1953 – 8 November 1954	Pirzada Abdus Sattar	Pakistan Muslim League
9 November 1954 – 14 October 1955	Mohammad Ayub Khuhro (3rd time)	Pakistan Muslim League
14 October 1955	Province of Sind dissolved

See also

• Sindh
• Khairpur
• Karachi