Sind Province (1936–1955)
| Sind | |||||||||||
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| Former Province of British India & Pakistan | |||||||||||
| 1936–1955 | |||||||||||
Province of Sind in Pakistan | |||||||||||
| Capital | Karachi (1936–1947) Hyderabad (1947–1955) | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• | 123,080 km2 (47,520 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Formation of Sind Province | 1 April 1936 | ||||||||||
| 3 March 1943 | |||||||||||
• Province of Pakistan | 14 August 1947 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 14 October 1955 | ||||||||||
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Sind, sometimes spelled Scinde, was a province of Pakistan from 1947 till its amalgamation into West Pakistan in 1955; and prior, a province of British India from being granted provincial status in 1936 till Pakistan's independence in 1947. Karachi was the capital of the province till 1948, succeeded by Hyderabad.
Under the British, it encompassed the current territorial limits excluding the princely state of Khairpur. In 1948, Karachi was separated from the province to form the Federal Capital Territory and serve as the federal capital of Pakistan; this resulted in the provincial capital being shifted to Hyderabad. The province was dissolved alongside Baluchistan, the North-West Frontier Province, West Punjab, and a number of Pakistani princely states to form a unified province of West Pakistan in 1955, upon implementation of the One Unit Scheme.