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The State of Khairpur (also transliterated as Khayrpur, was a princely state of
British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...
on the
Indus River The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayas, Himalayan river of South Asia, South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in the Western Tibet region of China, flows northw ...
in northern
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 ...
, modern Pakistan, with its capital city at Khairpur.


History

Khairpur was established by the
Talpur dynasty The Talpur dynasty () was a Baloch people in Sindh, Baloch dynasty that ruled the Sind State (present-day Sindh, Pakistan) after overthrowing the Kalhora dynasty in 1783 until British conquest of Sindh in 1843. A branch of the family continued ...
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 West Pakistan was the western province of Pakistan between One Unit, 1955 and Legal Framework Order, 1970, 1970, covering the territory of present-day Pakistan. Its land borders were with Afghanistan, India and Iran, with a maritime border wit ...
in 1955.


See also

* Khairpur (disambiguation) *
Former administrative units of Pakistan The former administrative units of Pakistan are states, provinces, and territories which mainly existed between 1947 and 1975 when the current Administrative units of Pakistan, provinces and territories were established. The former units have no ...


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Green Pioneers (United Nations Development Program site)
(archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Khairpur (Princely State) Khairpur District Dynasties of Pakistan Former monarchies in Pakistani history Princely states of Pakistan 1850s establishments in India 1955 disestablishments in Pakistan History of Sindh Talpur dynasty Princely rulers of Pakistan Nawabs of Pakistan Gun salute princely states