Khairpur State

• Conventional Long Name — Khairpur state • Common Name — Khairpur • Status — Princely state under British Raj (1838–1947) Princely state of Pakistan (1947–1955) • Year Start — 1783 • Year End — 30 September 1955 • Event Start — Established • Event1 — British conquest of Sindh • Date Event1 — 17 February – 24 March 1843 • Event3 — Accession to Pakistan • Date Event3 — 3 October 1947 • Event2 — Princely State established • Date Event2 — c. 1838 • Event End — Disestablished • P1 — Sind State • P2 — Talpur dynasty • S1 — Dominion of Pakistan • Capital — Khairpur • Common Languages — Sindhi • Government Type — Absolute Monarchy • Title Leader — Mir • Leader1 — Mir Sohrab Khan Talpur (first) • Year Leader1 — 1783–1811 • Leader2 — George Ali Murad Khan Talpur II (last) • Year Leader2 — 1947–1954 • Area Km2 — 15730 • Today — * Pakistan • Sindh • Religion — Islam • Footnotes — Local Government Department of Sindh

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. • Illustration — Khairpur State in a map of Bombay, Sind, Baroda, and states of Western India (northern section), published in the 'Imperial Gazetteer of India' (Vol. XXVI, Atlas; 1931 revised edition; plate no. 38) • Illustration — The Faiz Mahal haveli was one of several palaces used by the Khaipur Talpur Mirs.

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. List of Talpur dynasty rulers • S.N. — Ruler — Reign (CE) • 1 — Mir Sohrab Khan Talpur — 1783–1830 • 2 — Mir Rustam Ali Khan Talpur — 1830–1842 • 3 — Mir Ali Murad Khan Talpur — 1842–1894 • 4 — Mir Faiz Muhammad Khan Talpur — 1894–1909 • 5 — Mir Imam Bakhsh Khan Talpur — 1909–1921 • 6 — Mir Ali Nawaz Khan Talpur — 1921–1935 • 7 — Mir Faiz Muhammad Khan Talpur II — 1935–1947 • 8 — Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur — 1947

The princely state of Khairpur had a population of 227,183 in 1931 of whom 186,577 (83%) were Muslim, 39,894 (17%) were Hindu with people of other religions numbering 712. Hindus were mostly concentrated in the Nara taluk in the east while there were present in substantial numbers in the urban areas of Gambat and Raipur due to migrations. Half the population of Khairpur town was Hindu. Nearly two-thirds of the princely state's population lived on agriculture.