Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur was a Talpur prince who belonged to the

Mirpur Khas Mirpur Khas (Sindhi and ; ''meaning "Town of the most-high Mirs"'') is the capital city of the Mirpur Khas District and Mirpur Khas Division in the Sindh province, Pakistan. Mirpur Khas is the 16th largest city in Sindh province and the 80th ...

house of the royal

Talpur dynasty The Talpur dynasty ( sd, ٽالپردور) were rulers based in Sindh. Four branches of the dynasty were established following the defeat of the Kalhora dynasty at the Battle of Halani in 1783: one ruled lower Sindh from the city of Hyderabad, ...

. The son of

Mir Ali Murad Talpur Mir Ali Murad Talpur, known as the ''Aadil-i-Jang'', was the second ruler of the Mankani Talpur state of Mirpurkhas. He founded Mirpurkhas town in 1806 and made it the capital of his state which was founded by his father, Mir Tharo Khan Talpur ...

, the founder of Mirpur Khas, he was born in 1810. After becoming ruler of the Talpur dynasty, his reign saw a conflict with the

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, who launched an invasion of the province of

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

under the auspices of General

Charles James Napier General Sir Charles James Napier, (; 10 August 178229 August 1853) was an officer and veteran of the British Army's Peninsular and 1812 campaigns, and later a Major General of the Bombay Army, during which period he led the military conquest o ...

, aiming to annex the entire region. On 24 March 1843, troops under his command fought against a Company force in the

Battle of Hyderabad The Battle of Hyderabad (), sometimes called as the Battle of Dubbo was one of the major campaigns of the British against then Sindh led by the Talpurs which was fought on 24 March 1843 between the forces of the British East India Company and the ...

; the British emerged victorious, and captured the city of Hyderbad soon after. Talpur then retreated into the countryside, where forces loyal to him and equipped largely with

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s waged a guerrilla campaign against the British, whose efforts to counter this led Napier to coin the word "

counterinsurgency Counterinsurgency (COIN) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionari ...

". He eventually died on 24 August 1874.

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"Sher-i-Sindh" by Mir Atta Muhammad Talpur""Mir Sher Muhammad Khan Mankani" by Mir Muhammad Bukhsh Khan Talpur
Nawabs of Pakistan Baloch people People from Mirpur Khas District 1810 births 1874 deaths Indian revolutionaries Talpur dynasty {{India-royal-stub