Dynasty · 1701 – 1783
Sind — the Kalhora Dynasty
1701 and 1783 mark the span of Kalhora rule in Sindh as given by the source; the capital moved from Khudabad to Hyderabad in 1768. Abdul Nabi Kalhoro, the last ruler, was overthrown in 1783, ceding power to the Talpurs. Imperial Gazetteer (2026-09-22): The Gazetteer's Sind provincial history dates Yar Muhammad Kalhora's seizure of Shikarpur and his imperial grant to about 1701, and the flight of the last Kalhora to Kalat as Mir Fateh Ali Talpur founded the new dynasty to 1783, both of which match the row's dates exactly; it also confirms Ghulam Shah Kalhora founded Hyderabad in 1768.
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The Kalhora dynasty...was a Sindhi Muslim dynasty based in the region of Sindh in present-day Pakistan. From 1701 to 1768, their capital was Khudabad after which it was shifted to Hyderabad.
- vol. 22, p. 398
At length, about 1701, Yar Muhammad Kalhora, assisted by the Sirai or Talpur tribe, seized upon Shikarpur, where he fixed his court, and obtained from the emperor Aurangzeb a grant of the tract between the Indus and the Nara, together with a regular title (Khuda Yar Khan) under the imperial system.
- vol. 22, p. 399
Abdullah Khan Talpur, son of the murdered man, at once seized upon the government, and the last of the Kalhoras fled to Kalat... With him ended the dynasty of the Kalhoras. In 1783 Mir Fateh Ali Khan, first of the Talpur line, established himself as Rais of Sind.
