The State of Khairpur (also transliterated as Khayrpur) was a princely state of British India on the Indus River in northern Sindh locally known as the Uttrad Region, 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.
List of rulers
The Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur was the last ruler of dynasty defeated by the Charles James Napier in 1843 at the Battle of Miani.
+List of Talpur dynasty rulers S.N. Ruler Reign (CE)1Mir Sohrab Khan Talpur1783–18302Mir Rustam Ali Khan Talpur1830–18423Mir Ali Murad Khan Talpur1842–18944Mir Faiz Muhammad Khan Talpur1894–19095Mir Imam Bakhsh Khan Talpur1909–19216Mir Ali Nawaz Khan Talpur1921–19357Mir Faiz Muhammad Khan Talpur II1935–19478Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur1947-1954
Demographics
The princely state of Khairpur had a population of 227,183 in 1931 of whom 186,577 (83%) were Muslim, 39,894 (17%) were Hindu with people of other religions numbering 712. Hindus were mostly concentrated in the Nara taluk in the east while there were present in substantial numbers in the urban areas of Gambat and Raipur due to migrations. Half the population of Khairpur town was Hindu. Nearly two-thirds of the princely state's population lived on agriculture.
See also Sind State Khairpur (disambiguation) Former administrative units of Pakistan Siro (Region)
References
External links Green Pioneers (United Nations Development Program site) (archived)