SUKKUR, or SA  ,KHAR, a town and district of British India, in Sind, Bombay . The town is situated on the right bank of the Indus, 24 M . N.W. of Skikarpur . Pop . (1901), 31,316 . Sukkur has always commanded the trade of Sind, and the river is now crossed by a cantilever bridge carrying the North-Western railway to Kotri . The town was ceded to the Khairpur mirs between 1809 and 1824 . In 1833 Shah Shuja defeated the Talpurs here with great loss . In 1842 it came under British rule . The DISTRICT OF SUI IcUR was created in 1901 out of part of Shikarpur district, the remainder of which was formed into the district of Larkana . Area, 5403 sq. m . It is chiefly alluvial plain, but there are slight hills at Sukkur and Rohri .

In the higher-lying parts are

salt lands (Kalar), or even desert in the area known as the Registan . The climate is hot, dry and enervating . The annual rainfall at Sukkur town averages only 41 in . The population in 1901 was 523,345, showing an increase of Io% in the decade . A considerable part of the district is irrigated, the principal crops being wheat, millets, rice, pulses and oil seeds . Earthen, leathern and metal ware, cotton cloth and tussore silk are manufactured, also pipe-bowls, snuff-boxes and scissors . Lines of the North-Western railway serve the district, and there is a branch from Sukkur towards Quetta .