Khairpur (princely state)

This article is about the former State of Khairpur. For other uses, see Khairpur (disambiguation).

Khairpur state ریاست خیرپور
1783–30 September 1955
Flag
Khairpur (highlighted red) shown within the former exclave of West Pakistan
Status	Princely state under British Raj(1838-1947) Princely state of Pakistan (1947-1955)
Capital	Khairpur
Common languages	Sindhi
Religion	Islam
Government	Absolute Monarchy
Mir
• 1783–1811	Mir Sohrab Khan Talpur (first)
• 1947–1954	George Ali Murad Khan Talpur II (last)
History
•  Established	1783
•  British conquest of Sindh	17 February – 24 March 1843
•  Princely State established	c. 1853
•  Accession to Pakistan	3 October 1947
•  Disestablished	30 September 1955
Area
• Total	15,730 km2 (6,070 sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by Sind State Talpur dynasty Dominion of Pakistan
Today part of	Pakistan Sindh
Local Government Department of Sindh

The State of Khairpur (also transliterated as Khayrpur) ^[1] was a princely state of British India on the Indus River in northern Sindh, modern Pakistan, with its capital city at Khairpur.

History

Khairpur was established by the Talpur dynasty of the Balochs in 1783. Conquered by the British in 1843 following the Battle of Miani, Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur eventually gave up attempts to regain control of the area after a decade and entered into treaty with the British, thereby maintaining some autonomy as a princely state. The last Mir of Khairpur opted to join the new state of Pakistan in 1947, and the dominion was thus made a princely state of Pakistan, until it was fully amalgamated into West Pakistan in 1955. ^[2]

Khairpur State in a map of Bombay, Sind, Baroda, and states of Western India (northern section), published in the 'Imperial Gazetteer of India' (Vol. XXVI, Atlas; 1931 revised edition; plate no. 38)

The Faiz Mahal haveli was one of several palaces used by the Khaipur Talpur Mirs.

See also

• Sind State
• Khairpur (disambiguation)
• Former administrative units of Pakistan

References

1. "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 3, page 336 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
2. "Khairpur: then and now - Daily Times". Daily Times. 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

External links

• Green Pioneers (United Nations Development Program site) (archived)

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