Mehar Taluka ( ,) is an administrative subdivision (

taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ...

) of

Dadu District Dadu District (), () is a Districts of Pakistan, district of Sindh, Sindh Province, Pakistan. With headquarters in the city of Dadu, Pakistan, Dadu, the district was created in 1931 by merging Kotri and Mahal Kohistan (later Jamshoro) tehsils fro ...

Hyderabad Division Hyderabad Division () is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan. It was abolished in 2000 but restored again on 11 July 2011. CNIC code of Hyderabad Division is 41. Hyderabad is the divisional headquarters of Hyderabad ...

in the

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province of

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.Taluka Municipal Administration Mehar
/ref> According to the

2023 Pakistani census The 2023 Census of Pakistan was the detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population and the seventh national census in the country. It was conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. It was also the first ever digital census to be held in ...

, Mehar Taluka had a population of 520,559.

History

According to records, in 1848 Mehar Taluka was created as a subdivision of

during

British rule The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, * * lasting from 1858 to 1947. * * It is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or dire ...

with the town of Mehar as the headquarters. The taluka, along with the rest of Sindh, was for a time part of the Bombay Presidency of British India. The

Imperial Gazetteer of India ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.< ...

, written over a century ago during British rule, describes the taluka as follows:Mehar Tāluka - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 144.
/ref> It was once a taluka in Sindh province’s

Larkana District Larkana District ( Sindhi: لاڙڪاڻو ضلعو; ) is a district of the Sindh province of Pakistan. Its largest city is Larkana, which sits on the banks of the Indus River. It is the home district of the politically influential Bhutto famil ...

"Mehar.- ''Tāluka'' of Lārkāna District, Sindh, Bombay, lying between elev 162ft, with an area of 328 square miles. The population in 1901 was 58,434, compared with 48,320 in 1891. The tāluka contains 64 villages, of which Mehar is the headquarters. The density, 178 persons per square mile, greatly exceeds the District average. The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to 2.8

lakh A lakh (; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105). In the Indian 2, 2, 3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. F ...

s. The tāluka is irrigated by the Western Nāra and one of its feeders, the stable crop is jowār and rice. Prior to the floods of 1874 Mehar was fertile, but the water has now become brackish and all gardens have perished. Cultivation near the hills on the west depends entirely on rainfall."

Demographics

According to 2023 Pakistani census there were 519,238 spoke Sindhi, 477 Urdu, 306 Pashto, 264 Brahui, 82 Punjabi, 82 Hindko, 20 Balochi, 5 Saraiki, 1 Kashmiri & 84 others.

Administrative divisions

Mehar ()

Taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ...

is administratively subdivided into 15 Union Councils.

Union Councils

# Mehar # Balishah (including Village Kothi Khokhar) # Bothro (Sardar Mehboob Ali Dahar) # Baledai # Betto # Fareedabad # Gahi Mahessar # Kolachi # Khan Jo Goth # Mandwani # Nau Goth # Qazi Aarif # Radhan # Shah Panjo Masoo sahar">Maso_Sahar.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Maso Sahar">Masoo sahar # Tharari Mohabat # Sobho Khan Magsi # Thohro Chandio # Sindhi Butra # Goth Qaim Shah # Goth Molvi Siddique

Locality

Mehar is a town in

. It is administrated by the Government of Sindh. It is divided in 15 Union Councils. The politics of the area mostly remains in the hands of feudal families of Jatois and Butts. It is the hometown of Former Chief Minister of Sindh Liaquat Ali Jatoi and provincial Minister Fayaz Ali Butt.

References

Tehsils of Dadu District Populated places in Dadu District {{Sindh-geo-stub