Khanate of Kalat

The Khanate of Kalat, often referred to as the Brahui Confederacy, was a Brahui Khanate that emerged in the present-day Kalat area of Pakistan. Established in 1666 in response to the looming threat of Mughal expansion, it reached its peak in the mid-18th century, exerting control over a vast region of Balochistan that stretched from Kerman in the west to Sindh in the east, and from the Helmand River in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south.

In the early 19th century, the Khanate faced significant territorial losses to Qajar Iran and the Emirate of Afghanistan, with the city of Kalat itself being looted by the British in 1839. Following the signing of the Treaty of Kalat in 1875 by the Khan of Kalat and the Brahui Sardars, Kalat became a self-governing entity under a subsidiary alliance with British India, with oversight managed by the Baluchistan Agency. The state experienced a brief period of independence from 12 August 1947 until 27 March 1948, when its ruler, Ahmad Yar Khan, agreed to join newly created Pakistan, thereby becoming one of its Princely states.

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• Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)
• Makran (princely state)
• Las Bela (princely state)
• Kharan (princely state)
• Kalat State National Party
• List of princely states of British India