Khairpur
| Khairpur | |||||
| 1775-1955 | |||||
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| Capital | Khairpur | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State (17 rounds salute) | ||||
| surface | 15,822 km² | ||||
| population | 128,600 (1891) | ||||
| founding | 1775 | ||||
| resolution | October 14, 1955 | ||||
| State religion: Islam Dynasty: Talpur (Sohrabani line) |
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Khairpur was a princely state of British India in what is now the Pakistani province of Sindh . The Principality was 1783 ruling by Sohrab Khan from a collateral line of Are belutschistanischen Talpur - dynasty , which until 1813 under the sovereignty of Afghanistan was founded. Khairpur was a British protectorate from 1838 to 1947 . In 1891 the emirate had an area of 15,822 km² and a population of 128,600.
When the British granted Pakistan independence in 1947 , Khairpur became sovereign and joined Pakistan. On October 14, 1955, the emirate was dissolved. It initially belonged to the province of West Pakistan; In 1970 the area came to the newly formed Province of Sind ( written as Sindh since 1990 ).
See also
literature
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden 1986 ff., Sv BALŪČISTĀN, ISBN 90-04-08114-3
- Imperial Gazetteer of India, 2nd A., 26 vol., Oxford 1908–1931
- Schwartzberg, Joseph E., Ed .: A historical atlas of South Asia , 2nd A., New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6
Web links
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