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Report on Upper Sindh and the Eastern portion of Cutchee, with 

 a Memorandum on the Beloochee and other Tribes of Upper Scinde 

 and Cutchee, and a map of part of the Country referred to. By 

 Lieutenant J. Postans, Assistant Political Agent. From the Poli- 

 tical Secretariat of the Government of India. 



1st. " Upper," known in the language of the country as Sirra, or 



the northern division of Sindh, may be said to ex- 

 Extent, Soil and _ 

 General Appear- tend from Sehwan on the south, to Bukkur and 



Roree northward, and to include the whole tract 

 of country tributary to the Khyrpoor and Hyderabad chiefs on the 

 plain of the Indus, east and west, between these places (Sehwan and 

 Bukkur). Our political division of Upper Sindh, however, is of a 

 much more limited extent, and includes only the Khyrpoor posses- 

 sions, and the lands and revenues derivable by the Hyderabad 

 Ameers from [Shikarpore and its dependencies. To this division I 

 shall confine my observations. 



2nd. Khyrpoor, the capital of the chiefs of that branch of the Talpor 

 family, is situated to the eastward of the river Indus, about sixteen 

 miles south-east from Roree, (the ancient Hindoo capital of Sindh,) 

 and about ten miles from the river in a direct line. The territory 

 tributary to the Khyrpoor family extends to the north to Sub- 

 zulkotee; south to Mittanie, (on the river); eastward of the river to 

 Shahgur, belonging to the Dejee chief, Alii Moorad; and westward of 

 the river to Tull, capital of the Beloochee Purgunnah of Boordekur, 

 on the borders of the Brushooree desert, which separates Upper Sindh 

 from Cutchee. The possessions of the Ameers of Hyderabad in Up- 

 per Sindh dependent upon the populous and important town of Shi- 

 karpoor, extend to about eight miles west of that town to Asseem- 

 ghurry ; east to about six miles, (Khanpore) ; south to about eight miles 

 (Lukkee) ; north to Rajhan and Mobarickpur. 



3rd. The soil throughout the whole of the tract of country above 

 mentioned, may be generally described as a rich alluvial, alternating 

 occasionally with loose sand, rich and highly favorable for cultivation ; 

 the whole is within the influence of the inundations of the river In- 

 dus, which commence to be available for purposes of cultivation in 

 April and May, and cease in September or October. The land when 

 cultivated is unusually productive, but owing to a scanty population, 



