Tando Bago ( sd, ٽنڊو باگو) is a town and union council in

Badin District The Badin District ( sd, ضلعو بدين, ur, ) is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The total area of the district is 6,726 square kilometers.

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, Pakistan. The ''

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'' (township) of Tando Bago had a population of 321,818 in 2008. The Sindh government operates approximately 589 schools in Tando Bago. As of 2017, the town of Tando Bago has a total population of 17,546 people, in 3,663 households. Tando Bago is located on the left bank of the Shadiwah canal and is connected by road with

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(via

Tando Muhammad Khan Tando Muhammad Khan ( sd, ٽنڊو محمد خان; ur, ) is a city and headquarter of the Tando Muhammad Khan District located in Sindh, Pakistan. Is is named after Mir Muhammad Khan Talpur Shahwani. It is the 95th largest city of Pakistan, ...

), Wanga Bazar,

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, Pangrio,

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, and Nindo Shahr. The area around Tando Bago is crisscrossed by many small seasonal drainage channels, which mostly derive from the

Shahdadpur Shahdadpur ( sd, شهدادپور) is a city and capital of Shahdadpur Taluka located in Sanghar District of Sindh, Pakistan. It is associated with a number of Islamic scholars and Sindhi poets including Allama Asad Raza Ul Hussaini by the title ...

branch of the

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, although some come from branches further west. Tando Bago is home to a prominent

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community, which retains a distinct identity but is also relatively impoverished, mostly living in the

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area of Kandri Paro and working as lowly labourers. Kandri Paro's houses are generally small and in disrepair and lack the courtyards found in other parts of town. One notable member of Tando Bago's Sheedi community was Mussafir (a pen name; his given name was Muhammad Siddiq), who Sheedis throughout Sindh venerate as a hero for working to advance the position of Sheedis in society. Mussafir's father Bilal was born in

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around 1793 and was sold into slavery; eventually he was sold to a stonemason who had just been contracted to build a fort in Tando Bago for the ruling Talpurs. Mussafir himself was born in 1879, when his father was 86 years old. He was childhood friends with Mir Ghulam Muhammad, the heir of the main Talpur ruling family, and Mussafir later got him to help with founding a high school for Sheedis in the old Talpur fort. This school was the first in Pakistan to offer education to Sheedi girls. Mussafir died in Tando Bago and his blue-and-white tomb is an important site for Sheedis in Sindh.

City and people

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in Tando Bago include,

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, Lohana, Khatti, Aaga Khani, Rajput,

, Soomro, Memon, Chandio, Baloch, Qureshi, Punjabi, Kaloi, Pathan, Noonari, Bhanbhro,

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, Kazi, Siyal, Solangi, Baloch, Chalgri,

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, Mughal, Mirza, Unar, Bughio,

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, Rind,

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, Rustmani, Lashari, Nizamanri, Abbasi,

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, Lakha, Uttwani’s, Jablu Abra, Jablu’s Detha, Kolhi, Meghwar, Bheel,

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, Syed, Khaledi

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Pir,

Malik Malik, Mallik, Melik, Malka, Malek, Maleek, Malick, Mallick, or Melekh ( phn, 𐤌𐤋𐤊; ar, ملك; he, מֶלֶךְ) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as mlk in Northwest Semitic duri ...

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, Uttwani’s hindu peoples and many Sindhi communities. Among the people living in the city, 85 percent are native Sindhi speakers; 05 percent speak

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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His descendants, the Bagani branch of the Talpur dynasty, remained prominent residents of the town. Tando Bago was first constituted as a municipality on 20 June 1857. Tando Bago was historically the seat of a

pargana Pargana ( bn, পরগনা, , hi, परगना, ur, پرگنہ) or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each ...

, which covered territories that had earlier belonged to the district of Chachgan in the eastern Indus Delta. Around 1874, Tando Bago was described as the headquarters of a

taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

within the deputy collectorate of

, with a population of 1,033 including 568 Muslims and 465 Hindus. Most of the locals were employed either as farmers, traders, shopkeepers, goldsmiths, lahoris, servants, dyers, and washermen. There was a fairly minor local trade in rice and grain, sugar, cloth, oil, tobacco, and liquor and drugs; there was "little or no transit trade". The town was not noted for its manufactured goods. Tando Bago then had a government vernacular school, a large

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maintained by the municipality, the kacheri of the taluka's '' mukhtiarkar'' with an associated jail, and a police

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with 2 officers and 7 constables. The town was visited twice a year by the divisional judge on his circuit. The 1951 census recorded the village of Tando Bago as having an estimated population of 2,099 people, in 300 houses, and covering an area of 1.1 square miles. It had a Sanitary Committee, a primary school, a high school, a police station, and a post office at that point. The '' deh'' of Tando Bago, meanwhile, included a total population of 2,485 people, in 300 houses, and an area of 3.1 square miles.

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Populated places in Badin District Talukas of Sindh Tehsils of Sindh {{Sindh-geo-stub