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SHIKARPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHIKARPUR  , a

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town of
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British India, in the
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Sukkur
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district of
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Sind, Bombay . It is situated about 18 m. from the right
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bank of the
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Indus, with a station on the North-Western railway, 23 M . N.W. of Sukkur . Pop . (19or) 49,491 . Shikarpur has always been an important place as commanding the trade route through the Bolan Pass, and its merchants have dealings with many towns in Central
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Asia . It has a large market and manufactures of carpets, cotton
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cloth and pottery . Shikarpur was formerly the headquarters of a district of the same name . In 1901 two sub-divisions of this district were detached to form the new district of Larkana, and the two other subdivisions were then constituted the district of Sukkur .

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This article is so outdated. Shikarpur has been a part of Sind, Pakistan since the Sub-continent partition in 1947.
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