Shahbandar Tehsil
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==History== |
==History== |
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===Founding and early development=== |
===Founding and early development=== |
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The coastal area around present-day Shahbandar has a long history as a port district of the lower [[Indus Delta]]. The port town from which the taluka takes its name lay on a distributary channel of the Indus during the eighteenth century and served, for a period, as a principal seaport of [[Kalhora dynasty|Kalhora]] Sindh.{{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Albert William |author-link=Albert William Hughes |title=A Gazetteer of the Province of Sindh |publisher=George Bell & Sons |location=London |year=1874 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QZ8IAAAAQAAJ |pages=750–753}}{{cite journal |last=Nizamani |first=Sarfraz Ahmed |title=The Early History of Karachi City: An Exploration |journal=Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society |volume=LXIX |issue=4 |year=2021 |pages=77–82 |url=https://phs.com.pk/index.php/phs/article/download/166/96}} According to the eighteenth-century chronicle ''Tuhfat-ul-Kiram'', as cited in Hughes's 1874 gazetteer, the town was founded in 1759 by the Kalhora ruler [[Ghulam Shah Kalhoro|Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro]] ( |
The coastal area around present-day Shahbandar has a long history as a port district of the lower [[Indus Delta]]. The port town from which the taluka takes its name lay on a distributary channel of the Indus during the eighteenth century and served, for a period, as a principal seaport of [[Kalhora dynasty|Kalhora]] Sindh.{{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Albert William |author-link=Albert William Hughes |title=A Gazetteer of the Province of Sindh |publisher=George Bell & Sons |location=London |year=1874 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QZ8IAAAAQAAJ |pages=750–753}}{{cite journal |last=Nizamani |first=Sarfraz Ahmed |title=The Early History of Karachi City: An Exploration |journal=Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society |volume=LXIX |issue=4 |year=2021 |pages=77–82 |url=https://phs.com.pk/index.php/phs/article/download/166/96}} According to the eighteenth-century chronicle ''Tuhfat-ul-Kiram'', as cited in Hughes's 1874 gazetteer, the town was founded in 1759 by the Kalhora ruler [[Ghulam Shah Kalhoro|Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro]] (1757–1772), who built a fort there and stationed military materiel at the site, near his newly founded capital of Shahgarh. An earlier settlement of the same name is reported to have been founded in the 1550s by Mirza Isa Tarkhan of the [[Tarkhan dynasty]]. |
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In 1758, Ghulam Shah Kalhoro issued a ''parwana'' (permit) authorising the [[East India Company|British East India Company]] to establish a trading factory at Shahbandar, restoring a Company presence in Sindh that had briefly existed at [[Thatta]] from 1635 until its closure in 1662.{{cite journal |last1=Ahmed |first1=Bashir |last2=Sultana |first2=Summer |title=Downfall of Talpur Dynasty and British Annexation of Sindh |journal=WALIA Journal |volume=35 |issue=1 |year=2019 |pages=132–139 |url=https://drpathan.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Downfall_of_Talpur_dynasty_and_British_a.pdf}}{{cite news |last=Lari |first=Suhail Zaheer |title=Excerpt from ''A Monograph on Sindh through the centuries'' |work=Dawn |date=22 June 2013 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1020002}} The factory operated until 1775, when it was closed. |
In 1758, Ghulam Shah Kalhoro issued a ''parwana'' (permit) authorising the [[East India Company|British East India Company]] to establish a trading factory at Shahbandar, restoring a Company presence in Sindh that had briefly existed at [[Thatta]] from 1635 until its closure in 1662.{{cite journal |last1=Ahmed |first1=Bashir |last2=Sultana |first2=Summer |title=Downfall of Talpur Dynasty and British Annexation of Sindh |journal=WALIA Journal |volume=35 |issue=1 |year=2019 |pages=132–139 |url=https://drpathan.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Downfall_of_Talpur_dynasty_and_British_a.pdf}}{{cite news |last=Lari |first=Suhail Zaheer |title=Excerpt from ''A Monograph on Sindh through the centuries'' |work=Dawn |date=22 June 2013 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1020002}} The factory operated until 1775, when it was closed. |
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[[Category:Populated places in Sujawal District]] |
[[Category:Populated places in Sujawal District]] |
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[[Category:Port cities and towns in Pakistan]] |
[[Category:Port cities and towns in Pakistan]] |
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[[Category:Indus Delta]] |
[[Category:Indus Delta archipelago]] |
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