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187:(d. 1612), Kakrala was ruled by one Jam Halah, who was Jam Desar's son. He had crossed into Mirza Ghazi Beg's territory and caused trouble including killing and looting. The Mirza set out with an army to punish Jam Halah, whose relative Jam Daud guided the Mirza. This campaign was successful, and Jam Daud became a favourite of Mirza Ghazi Beg. He married Jam Daud's daughter (the Tarkhan rulers had apparently been trying to get a marriage alliance with the Jams but had not been successful until now) and divided Kakrala into three parts, with two being annexed into his own territory and the remaining one ruled by Jam Daud. 117:
in Sujawal district. Another was Rajan Shah, also a Suhrawardi mystic from the same family, whose tomb is located 1 km west of Aban Shah's. Both the men and women took part in the tomb-building process; for example, one woman of the Kakrala ruling family commissioned the tombs at
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Two years later, Muhammad Muradyab Khan wanted to invade Kakrala again, but the Kalhoro nobles refused to take part because they didn't want to break the treaty, and they ended up forming a conspiracy to dethrone him and replace him with his brother
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to lead an incursion into Kalhoro territory, was defeated by a group of generals, including one named Muhammad Siddik Wais, who had been dispatched to deal with him. Then in 1761, he was made to leave the fort of
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The name "Kakrala" is variously transliterated; variant spellings include Kakrāla, Kakrālā, Kakrālah, Kakrālo, and Kukrāla. It is probably derived from the
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was appointed to govern Kakrala, which was in tumult at the time. He restored order and not long after the government was given to one "Jam Wisar".
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In 1744 (1157 AH), the Kakrala ruler Jam Hothi was defeated and killed by someone named Shekh Shukrullah, who installed Jam Mahar to succeed him.
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first allude to Kakrala sometime between 1566 and 1568; it calls Kakrala "by the seashore" and says its ruler at the time was Jam Desar.
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Shortly after Muhammad Muradyab Khan was installed as ruler of Sindh, he invaded Kakrala and defeated the Jam, who was "removed from
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mystic who is buried at a place called Aban Shah Ja Takkar (where he had come to live during his lifetime), 2 km south of
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and confined at Kakrala, his head-quarters". Under the resulting treaty, Muhammad Muradyab Khan annexed the territories of
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in ancient Greek sources, but this is unlikely because Krokala was probably not in or near the Indus Delta.
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meaning "pebble". The interpretation "land's end" has also been proposed, but this is more esoteric.
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From about 1470 to 1760, Kakrala was also a small state, whose rulers took the title of
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In 1760, Jam Desar of Kakrala, who had taken advantage of Ghulam Shah's absence from
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as governor of Thatta in 1629 (1039 AH), Jam Hala was targeted for chastisement.
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for themselves and for their patron saints. One of their patron saints was
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In 1738 (1151 AH), the Jam of Kakrala joined with Raja Ajmal of
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Some 19th-century authors identified Kakrala with the island of
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Elliot, H. M. (1867). "Tarkhán-Náma". In Dowson, John (ed.).
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Index

Kakrala
Sindh
Indus Delta
taluqas
Shahbandar
Jati
Sujawal
Thatta districts
Jati
Kharo Chan
Wanyani
Pitti
pargana
Ghorabari
Jam
Sammas
Kehars
Dera
Chach Jahan Khan
chhatris
Aban Shah
Suhrawardi
Chuhar Jamali
Abro Halani
Kalhoro dynasty
Sindhi
Tarikh-i-Masumi
Tuhfat-ul-Kiram
Amir Shah Qasim
Mirza Ghazi Beg

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