On the annexation of Sindh by the British in 1843, Sir Charles Napier was appointed Governor of the province with a monthly salary of Rs 8,000. At first he made Hyderabad his headquarters but afterwards he transferred to Karachi.He divided the province into three Collectorates for revenue and magisterial purposes. These were: Karachi, with an area of 160,000 sq.m.; Hyderabad, with an area of 30,000 sq.m.; and Shikarpur, with an area of 11,532 sq.m. The Shikarpur Collectorate embraced roughly the whole of present-day Sukkur, Upper Sindh Frontier, and Larkana Districts except for the talukas of Dadu, Johi, and Sehwan. The officer in charge of each District was called a Collector, and had under him Deputy Collectors. The first Collectors were Lieutenant Rathbone in Hyderabad, Captain Preedy in Karachi, and Captain Pope in Sukkur and Rohri (Shikarpur).

     Assistant Collectors were responsible for revenue Collection and magisterial duties in the portions of the District called Subdivisions. Each Subdivision comprised several talukas For administrative purposes, the District Was divided into talukas and sometilnes even further, into Iflahals Each taluka was in the hands of a mukhtiarkar who, in addition to revenue duties, had magisterial powers and the custody of a subtreasury established for his taluka. he tajukas were further subdivided into tapas, each of Which Was made up of a group of dehs. Between the mukhtlarkar and the tapadar, the man in charge of a tapa,there was a cadre of inspecting officers known as supervising tapadars. There was one supervising tapadar to every four or five ordinary tapadars.Sindh, though generally regarded as a non— bureaucratized province, became more and more bureaucratized as the principal regulations and acts of the other provinces were, in time, extended to it for political reasons, e.g. revenue collection and judicial efficiency. It was divided into five large portions: the three Collectorates of Karachi, Hyderabad, and Shikarpur, and the two political superintendencies of Upper Sindh Frontier, with District HQ at Jacobabad, and Tharparkar, with District HQ first at Umerkot and later at Mirpurkhas. Each Collector was assisted by deputy and extra assistant collectors and magistrates.The political subdivisions in District Shikarpur were (i) Sukkur and Shikarpur, and (ii) Rohri. The Sukkur-Shikarpur and Rohri subdivisions.

Sukkur District formed part of the old Shikarpur District created by Sir Charles Napier in 1851. The greater part of the territory seized from Mir Ali Murad of Khairpur was added to it, i.e., Shahbela, Chak, Saidabad, Ubauro, Mirpur parganas, and the Alore, Bakhar, and Sanbarki tapas. The military administration had its headquarters at Shikarpur until 1883, when it was removed to Sukkur. In 1906, the Larkana and Mahar subdivisions, comprising Larkana, Rato Dero, Kambor, Ladbarya, Mahar, Warah, and Kakar talukas, were separated to form part of a new Larkana District; at the same time the designation of Shikarpur District was changed to Sukkur District. In 1904, the mahal of Pano Akil was converted into a taluka. The new District was divided into three subdivisions: Shikarpur, Rohri, and Ubauro.

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