Mirs of Khairpur between 1809 and 1824. In 1833,
Shah Shuja (a warlord of Kandahar, Afghanistan) defeated the Talpurs near
Sukkur and later made a solemn treaty with the Talpur ruler, by which he
relinquished all claims on Sindh. In 1843, the British (General Charles James
Napier) defeated the Talpurs at the battles of Miani and Dubbo near Hyderabad.
Sukkur, along with the rest of Sindh, was under British rule until the
independence of Pakistan in 1947. The (current) district of Sukkur was
constituted in 1901 out of part of Shikarpur District, the remainder of which was
formed into the Larkana District. Sukkur saw a significant socio-economic
uplift after the 1930s, when the British built the world's largest barrage here
on the Indus River. The predominantly Muslim population supported Muslim League
and Pakistan Movement. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the minority
Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India while the Muslim refugees from India settled
in the Sukkur
