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Treasures of the Talpurs: Collections from the Courts of Sindh

Mohatta Palace Museum1999-09

Mohatta Palace Museum

Mohatta Palace Museum
Karachi, Pakistan

This was the first ever exhibition dedicated to the private collections of the Talpur families, a confederation of Baloch chieftains who ruled Sindh when the British took control in 1843. The collections drawn from the Talpur courts a Khairpur, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas were selected by curators Hamid Akhund and Nasreen Askari to include over a hundred magnificent objects ranging from arms and armour to costumes and textiles, jewellery, coins, manuscripts, furniture and decorative objects.

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