1840.] Account of Khyrpoor and the Fortress of Bukur. 1093 



' \ Meer Roostum, Nuseer Khan, and Ulee Morad. 

 Gagun, j 



Mathelo — Meer Roostum. 

 Futtihabad. 

 The principal divisions of Moghulee are — 

 Shikarpoor, a 



Jutvee, V Nuseer Khan. 



Sukhur, J 



Noushuhra — Moohummud Husun. 

 Roopa — Meer Roostum. 

 Durbelo — Ulee Morad. 



Goonjaba, \ 



F ttih / Meers Roostum, Nuseer Khan, and Ulee Morad. 



The reigning family is a branch of the Talpoor tribe, which came 

 originally from Shahzadpoor on the mountains of Kuchee, the most easterly 

 province of Beloochistan. Other writers have given an account of them, 

 and I shall merely state that their ancestor Byram Khan was minister 

 of state under Mirjan Surfiiraz Khan Kalhora, by whom he was cruelly 

 slain with his son Sobdar about the year 1775. His death produced violent 

 disturbances in Sind, for he possessed extensive influence with his tribe, 

 and the people of the country. In 1781 Bejur, another son of Byram 

 Khan, shared his fate by order of Mirjan Abdool Nubbee, uncle of 

 Surfuraz Khan, which exasperating the Talpoorees, they rose in a body, 

 and having dethroned the tyrant, raised Futtih Ulee, the grandson of 

 Byram and chief of their tribe, to the government, which has continued 

 ever since in the possession of his family. This revolution occurred about 

 fifty years ago, in the reign of Timour Shah of Kabul, to whom Sind was 

 then tributary. He had endeavoured in the commencement of the struggle 

 to restore the Kalhoras, but was not latterly in a situation to assist them, 

 and formally invested the Talpoorees with the government. 



Meer Chakur Khan, the grandfather of the reigning prince, was the 

 first of his race who obtained authority in Khyrpoor. He went blind 

 from age, and was succeeded on his death by his son Sohrab Khan, 

 who died also at an advanced age in 1830, and left five sons : 



Meer Roostum Khan, who succeeded him. 



Meer Ghoolam Hydur, (deceased.) 



Meer Moobaruk Khan, (deceased.) 



Meer Chakur Khan. 

 By another marriage : 



Meer Ulee Morad. 



