Khayrpur (princely state)
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Khayrpur or Khairpur was a princely state on the Indus River in what is now Pakistan, with its capital city at Khayrpur. Together with Bahawalpur to the north-east, the state was counted amongst the Punjab states rather than the neighbouring Rajputana states (now Rajasthan) to the east.
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[edit] History
The state was originally founded as the kingdom of Upper Sindh 1783 by Sohrab Khan who was a member of the junior branch of the ruling Talpur clan of the state of Sindh.[1] The capital city was developed in 1786. When the British took over responsibility for foreign affairs in 1838, the status was reduced to that of a Princely State. The gun salute was reduced from 19 to 17 and then to 15, as the area of the state diminished to 15,670 km2. Khairpur closed its mint and currency in 1903 and gave legal tender to the British imperial currency in order to utilize the benefit of the economic market of the empire. In 1947, the ruler of Khairpur acceded to the newly-formed Dominion of Pakistan.[2] After almost two centuries of varying degrees of independence, the state became part of Pakistan in 1947 and was merged into the province of West Pakistan on 14th October 1955. When that province was dissolved in 1970, the former state of Khayrpur became part of the new province of Sind (the spelling was changed to Sindh in 1990).[3]
[edit] Government
The form of government was traditional monarchy. However, in 1950 the Mir Ali Murad II introduced democracy with universal adult franchise. The rulers of Khayrpur were styled as Amir - thus the correct title of the state was the Emirate of Khayrpur. The royal privileges of the Amir were abolished in 1972 in violation of the original merger agreement, along with those of most of the other sovereign princes that had acceded to Pakistan.
| Tenure | Amir of Khayrpur[4] |
|---|---|
| 1775 - 1811 | Sohrab Khan |
| 1811 - 20th December 1842 | Rustam Ali Khan |
| 1829 - 1839 | Mubarak Ali Khan (challenger) |
| 1839 - 1842 | Nasser Khan (challenger) |
| 20th December 1842 - 2nd April 1894 | Ali Murad Khan |
| 2nd April 1894 - 6th March 1909 | Faiz Mohammad Khan I |
| 6th March 1909 - 8th February 1921 | Imam Bakhsh Khan |
| 8th February 1921 - 25th June 1921 | Interregnum |
| 25th June 1921 - 25th December 1935 | Ali Nawaz Khan |
| 25th December 1935 - 19th July 1947 | Faiz Mohammad Khan II |
| 19th July 1947 - 14th October 1955 | George Ali Murad Khan |
| 14th October 1955 | State of Khayrpur abolished |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Henry Soszynski, University of Queensland. Khairpur (Princely State). Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
- ^ Allen, Charles; Dwivedi, Sharada (1987). Lives of the Indian Princes. Random House.
- ^ Gwillim Law, Statoids.com. Provinces of Pakistan. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
- ^ Ben Cahoon, WorldStatesmen.org. Pakistan Princely States. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
