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Hyderabad, Sind

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'''Hyderabad''' was the seat of government for the ruling families of [[Sind]] in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the British period it was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_318.gif Hyderabad District] and the capital of the Sind division of [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay Presidency]] until the 1840s when it was shifted to [[Karachi]]. See [[Bombay Districts]].
It was the location of a cantonment, with a Barracks barracks known as Napier Barracks.<ref>Lane, Trudy [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2001-01/0980214191 Mortimer L.D.] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 23 January 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2015</ref>
== Military history ==
[[Sind Campaign]] 1842-43<br>[[Battle of Hyderabad]] 1843<br>[[Battle of Dubba]] 1843<br>[[Battle of Meeanee]] 1843
==Forts==
* Pucca Qila *[[ Hyderabad Fort]]
==External Links=Historical books online===*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_327.gif "Hyderabad City"] ''Imperial Gazetteerof India'' Volume 13, page 321.*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/470/mode/2up "Hyderabad (Scinde)"] page 470 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
== References ==
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