Partition, mobility, and identity transformation among Sindhi Hindu migrants
Partition, mobility, and identity transformation among Sindhi Hindu migrants

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how Sindhi Hindu migrants and their descendants narrate and interpret post-partition experiences across different diasporic contexts. Drawing on qualitative interviews with ten participants living in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the study approaches migration not as a completed historical event, but as an ongoing condition shaped by memory, mobility, and adaptation. The analysis shows that partition is remembered not only as a traumatic rupture marked by loss of homeland, property, and security, but also as the beginning of a sustained process of movement and reorientation extending across generations. Rather than treating migration as a linear transition from displacement to settlement, the article argues that Sindhi Hindu experiences are better understood as narratively constructed trajectories in which trauma, mobility, opportunity, and identity transformation coexist. The findings highlight a central tension between mobility and continuity: the same flexibility that enabled migrants to rebuild their lives across multiple national contexts simultaneously contributed to language shift, cultural dislocation, and a weakening of rooted forms of belonging. By foregrounding narrative and intergenerational memory, the article contributes to broader debates on diaspora, post-partition memory, and the processual nature of identity and migration.

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