KHAIRPUR, or KHYRPOOR  , a native state of India, in the Sind province of Bombay . Area, 605o sq. m.; pop . (z9ox), II 199,313, showing an apparent increase of 55 % in the decade; estimated revenue, £90,000 . Like other parts of Sind, Khairpur consists of a great alluvial plain, very rich and fertile in the neighbourhood of the Indus and the irrigation canals, the remaining area being a continuous series of sand-hill ridges covered with a stunted brushwood, where cultivation is altogether impossible . A small ridge of limestone hills passes through the northern part of the state, being a continuation of a ridge known as the Ghar, running southwards from Rohri . The state is watered by five canals drawn off from the Indus, besides the Eastern Nara, a canal which follows an old bed of the Indus . In the desert tracts are pits of natron .