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Talti
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Talti
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Talti
Talti (Pakistan)
Coordinates: 26°31′38″N67°48′42″E / 26.527191°N 67.811658°E / 26.527191; 67.811658 [1]
CountryPakistan
Region Sindh
District Jamshoro
Taluka Sehwan
Population
 (2017) [2]
 • Total
6,716
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+6 (PDT)

Talti is a town and union council [3] in Sehwan taluka of Jamshoro District, Sindh, Pakistan. [4] [5] It is located in the historical pargana of Baghban, [6] 8 miles north of Sehwan and 2 miles off the main road from Sehwan to Larkano. [4] It also has road connections with nearby Bhan and Bubak. [4] There is a dhandh near Talti that is used as a source of fishery. [4]

As of 2017, Talti has a population of 6,716, in 1,387 households, [2] while the total population of the Talti union council is 37,694. [3] It is the seat of a tappedar circle, which also includes the villages of Bilawalpur, Duridero Jatoi, and Jatoi. [2]

The Sufi saint Makhdoom Bilawal was born here in 1451. [6] Later, around 1520, Talti was the site of the battle where the Samma dynasty was decisively defeated by Shah Beg Arghun, who as a result of the battle became the uncontested ruler of Sindh. [4] In this battle, the Sammas were joined by Sehta and Sodha tribesmen in an alliance facilitated by Makhdoom Bilawal and other local religious leaders. [7] After the battle, Shah Beg encamped at Talti for three days. [7] He had Talti and its small fort razed, its crops destroyed, and its inhabitants massacred. [7]

Around 1874, Talti was described as a small town with an estimated population of about 900: about 250 were Muslims, mostly Khaskheli, and about 650 were Hindus, mostly Lohanos. [4] It had a small police station, a government vernacular school, and a dharamsala. [4] There was no significant industry in the town at the time apart from small-scale production of cloth and rugs. [4] Local trade consisted of ghee, grain, and oil, but there was no major long-distance trade. [4]

Less than 1km east of Talti, by the road to Bubak, is the 18th-century dargah of the Muslim holy man Shahab Uddin Shah Bukhari. [8] The tomb is well-maintained by the locals and was significantly renovated in the 2000s or 10s, and new āina-kāri decoration was also added at the same time. [8]

The 1951 census recorded the village of Talti as having an estimated population of about 690, in about 350 houses. [9] It had a Sanitary Committee at that point. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Geonames Search". Do a radial search using these coordinates here.
  2. 1 2 3 Population and household detail from block to tehsil level (Jamshoro District) (PDF). 2017. p. 18. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Union Council wise Thematic Analysis". Department of Health, Government of Sindh. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Hughes, A.W. (1874). A Gazetteer of the Province of Sindh. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 29, 698, 709, 726, 730, 732, 807–8. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "List of Dehs in Sindh" (PDF). Sindh Zameen. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  6. 1 2 Kalhoro, Zulfiqar Ali (11 September 2020). "Heroic Saint of Baghban". The Friday Times. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 Naz, Humera (2020). "Sindh under the Mughals: Some Glimpses from Tarikh-i-Masumi and Mazhar-i-Shahjahani". Pakistan Perspectives. 24 (2): 15. SSRN   3652107 . Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  8. 1 2 Shah, Syed Shakir Ali (2016). "Archaeological Investigations in Manchar Concession Area (Area of Operation)" (PDF). Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology. 4: 790–1. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  9. 1 2 Census of Pakistan, 1951: Village List (PDF). p. 19 in section "Dadu District". Retrieved 31 December 2021.
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