Kacchi was a division of the former princely state of

Kalat Qalat, Qelat, Kalat, Kalaat, Kalut, or Kelat, may refer to: * Qalat (fortress), a fortified place or fortified village Afghanistan * Qalat, Afghanistan, capital of Zabul Province * Kalat, Badakhshan, a small village in the Kuran wa Munjan Dist ...

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, Pakistan, with an area . It was located in the

Kacchi Plain The Kacchi Plains ( Sindhi: ڪچي ميدان, Balochi: کَچِّ سَتَیْ زَمِیمْ) or Bolan Plains, also known as Kach Gandava is a region located in Balochistan, Pakistan. The addition of the latter "gandava" is based on the name o ...

History

The Kacchi is historically part of

Sindh Sindh ( ; ; , ; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind (caliphal province), Sind or Scinde) is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, southeastern region of the country, Sindh is t ...

, with indigenous Sindhi population, the history of Kacchi is also closely connected with the

history of Sindh The history of Sindh refers to the history of the modern-day Pakistani province of Sindh, as well as neighboring regions that periodically came under its sway. Sindh was the site of one of the Cradle of civilizations, the Bronze Age Indus Vall ...

. It was part of

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, Chach, Soomra and Samma dynasties. In the 15th century the Baloch arrived and there were constant wars between their leaders

Mir Chakar Rind Chakar Khan Rind (1468–1565) ( Balochi: میر چاکَر خان رِند) was a Baloch chieftain who founded the Second Baloch Confederacy (1487–1512). He is considered a folk hero of the Baloch people and an important figure in the B ...

and Mir Gwahram Khan Lashari. Then the area alongwith whole Sindh was taken over by the Arghuns, following which it came under the control of the

Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an Early modern period, early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to ...

. Kacchi and

Sibi Sibi (; ;) is a city situated in the Balochistan (Pakistan), Balochistan Subdivisions of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. The city serves as the administrative headquarters of the Sibi District, district and Sibi Tehsil, tehsil of the same name ...

were then parts of the

Kalhora dynasty The Kalhora dynasty () was a Sindhi Muslim Kalhora tribe dynasty based in the region of Sindh, present day Pakistan. The dynasty governed much of Sindh and parts of Kutch (present-day Gujarat, India) between 1701 and 1783 from their capital of ...

until in 1740 when

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handed it over to the

Khanate of Kalat The Khanate of Kalat, also known as the Brahui Confederacy, was a Brahui Khanate that originated in the modern-day Kalat region of Pakistan. Formed in 1666 due to the threat of Mughal expansion in the region,"Baluchistan" ''Imperial Gazet ...

as a blood compensation for the death of

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, in the

Battle of Kachhi Battle of Kachhi (Sindhi language, Sindhi: ڪڇي جي جنگ) also known as Battle of Jandari (Sindhi language, Sindhi: جنداري جي جنگ) was fought between the Khanate of Kalat under Abdullah Khan Ahmadzai, Mir Abdullah Khan Ahmadzai ...

. After the

Independence of Pakistan The Pakistan Movement was a religiopolitical and social movement that emerged in the early 20th century as part of a campaign that advocated the creation of an Islamic state in parts of what was then British Raj. It was rooted in the two-nation th ...

, Kalat State became part of Pakistan and

Kachhi District Kachhi or Kacchi (, ), previously known until 2008 as Bolan District, is a district located in the central part of the Balochistan province in Pakistan. The Bolan area remained under one district Kacchi until 31 December 1991. The Deputy Commi ...

was notified as a district in February 1965.

Demographics

References

Sibi District
Khanate of Kalat Sibi District {{Baluchistan-geo-stub

History

Demographics

See also

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