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KHAIRPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town is situated on a See also:canal 15 M. E. of the See also:Indus, with a railway station, 20 M. S. of See also:Sukkur, on the See also:Kotri-Rohri See also:branch of the See also:North-Western railway, which here crosses a corner of the See also:state. Pop. (1901), 14,014. There are manufactures of See also:cloth, carpets, goldsmiths' See also:work and arms, and an export See also:trade in See also:indigo, See also:grain and oilseeds. The See also:chief, or mir, of Khairpur belongs to a Baluch See also:family, known as the Talpur, which See also:rose on the fall of the Kalhora See also:dynasty of See also:Sind. About 1813, during the troubles in See also:Kabul incidental to the See also:establishment of the Barakzai dynasty, the mirs were able to withhold the See also:tribute which up to that date had been somewhat irregularly paid to the rulers of See also:Afghanistan. In 1832 the individuality of the Khairpur state was recognized by the See also:British See also:government in a treaty under which the use of the See also:river Indus and the roads of Sind were secured. When the first Kabul expedition was decided on, the mir of Khairpur, See also:Ali See also:Murad, cordially supported the British policy; and the result was that, after the battles of See also:Meeanee and Daba had put the whole of Sind at the disposal of the British, Khairpur was the only state allowed to retain its See also:political existence under the See also:protection of the See also:paramount See also:power. The chief mir, Faiz Mahommed See also:Khan, G.C.I.E., who was an enlightened ruler, died in 1909, shortly after returning from a See also:pilgrimage to the Shiite See also:shrine of See also:Kerbela.

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