Khairpur (princely state)


The State of Khairpur was a princely state of British India on the Indus River in northern Sindh, modern Pakistan, with its capital city at Khairpur.

History

Khairpur was established by the Talpur dynasty of the Balochs 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 in 1955.

List of rulers

The Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur was the last ruler of dynasty defeated by the Charles James Napier in 1843 at the Battle of Miani.
S.N.RulerReign
1Mir Sohrab Khan Talpur1783–1830
2Mir Rustam Ali Khan Talpur1830–1842
3Mir Ali Murad Khan Talpur1842–1894
4Mir Faiz Muhammad Khan Talpur1894–1909
5Mir Imam Bakhsh Khan Talpur1909–1921
6Mir Ali Nawaz Khan Talpur1921–1935
7Mir Faiz Muhammad Khan Talpur II1935–1947
8Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur1947