Sindhi Saaz Foundation

dedicated to restoring awareness of Sindh and the Sindhi identity

Our focus areas

Oral history archives & digital repository

Creating and maintaining archives, oral histories, and digital repositories to ensure long–term access to Sindhi heritage.

Original research & artistic expression

Supporting and encouraging research, writing, translation, education, and artistic expression that reflect and strengthen Sindhi identity and legacy.

Grants, fellowships, and commissions

Identifying and nurturing individuals and groups – writers, scholars, translators, musicians, artists, and cultural practitioners – through resources, training, and financial support.

Intergenerational cultural transmission

Building networks, partnerships, and platforms that enable cultural continuity and intergenerational transmission within the Sindhi diaspora.

The Sindhi Saaz Foundation is dedicated to restoring awareness of Sindh and the Sindhi identity – a history long overlooked in Partition narratives and South Asian studies, despite being integral to the story of the subcontinent.

Through books, oral histories, archives, exhibitions, digital art, and educational outreach, the foundation documents both the remembered past and the global Sindhi community as it exists today – dispersed across continents, continually adapting and redefining itself. Rooted in collaboration and sponsorships, the foundation provides a platform for writers, artists, scholars, and communities, aiming to build a growing body of high–quality knowledge about Sindh and Sindhiness. It builds on the pioneering work of black–and–white fountain, established to publish Sindhi histories when mainstream publishers were unreceptive, now recognised for the calibre of its publications and its role in shaping Sindh studies. By honouring the community’s resilience, cultural diversity, and traditions of multi-faith harmony, and by carefully restoring what was silenced in the wake of Partition, the foundation ensures that Sindh’s heritage becomes part of a shared global inheritance.

What exile did

Language was lost. Culture was lost. History was lost.

Poetry, music, mysticism – traded for survival and gain.

Memories faded. In new lands, they became caricatures.

Their depths of intellectual thought – were replaced by symbols of identity.

Unable to remember who they were, they mocked themselves.

Home was gone, they were lost. Now it is time to remember.

Windows into our archive

Early Destinations of the Global Sindhi Diaspora

A brief glimpse into Malta

This collection brings together rare letterheads from early 20th–century Sindhi businesses in Malta (courtesy Malta historian Professor Mark Anthony Falzon).

Traders from Hyderabad, Sindh came to Malta in the late 19th century. A family account from Bherumal tells the story of four brothers, a story of ambition, migration, tragedy, and persistence – the human side of the Sindhi mercantile story, invariably overshadowed by stereotypes of trade and prosperity.

Sindhi Memory Archive

The Sindhi Memory Archive gathers private family collections of photographs, letters, and documents. Most historical records were lost or destroyed during Partition, leaving an unspoken loss in our understanding of what truly took place, and in the historical record of the Sindhi people. By preserving and sharing what has survived, the Archive honours those who faithfully safeguarded these traces through generations, and makes their collections publicly accessible for research, reflection, and future generations. We continue to seek contributions from families and individuals, and are committed to ensuring this shared heritage takes its rightful place in public memory.

Freedom movement in Sindh

Perhaps because of the urgency of rescue and rehabilitation that followed Partition, Sindh’s contribution to the freedom movement went largely unremarked. Yet the struggle for freedom – and the awareness of British exploitation – ran deep in Sindh: a province that had come under colonial rule later than the rest of India, where control was imposed swiftly and systematically. Tragically, when freedom came, Partition came with it – and the Sindhis who had fought for independence soon found themselves exiled from their homeland. In their new homes in a truncated India, they came to be seen only as traders and survivors, their public engagement unacknowledged.

Read here about the valiant ones who fought with all they had – only to lose their homeland forever.

Sweet lord, please always make the bounty of your creation easily available to all

In Sindh, mother of our nation, and everywhere; please keep everyone happy

Friends, beloveds, scholars: all beings, dear lord.

Shah Abdul Latif (1689 – 1752)

Slideshow images courtesy: Jyoti Punwani (the Congress group photo), Sonia Gidwani (the zamindar photo), Menghraj Talreja (the Cheti Chand celebration)

Sindh Memory Archive image courtesy: Ashok Malkani