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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Sira Taluk
| native_name = Sira
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| settlement_type = City and Taluk
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| pushpin_map = India Karnataka
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Karnataka, India
| coordinates = {{coord|13.745|N|76.909|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Karnataka]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts in India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Tumkuru district|Tumakuru]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/bangalore-is-now-bengaluru/|title = Bangalore is now Bengaluru|date = November 2014}}</ref>
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| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Kannada]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
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| postal_code = 572 137
| registration_plate = KA-06, 64.
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'''Sira''' is a [[taluk]] of [[Tumkur]] district in the state of [[Karnataka]], India. Its headquarters, [[Sira, India|Sira city]] lies on the [[National Highway 48 (India)|NH 48]] (earlier [[NNational Highway 4 (India, old numbering)|NH 4]])

==History==
Sira was politically and militarily an important region of south India prior to the [[British Raj]].
[[Province of Sira|Sira Province]] was ruled by the Bijapur Kings from 1638 to 1687. The "Suba" or [[Province of Sira]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] with its capital at [[Sira, India|Sira town]] lasted from 1687 to 1757. The [[Marathas]] wrested the province from [[Mughals]] and held it from 1757 to 1759, when the Mughals regained it. In 1761, [[Haidar Ali]] whose father Sheikh Fateh Mohammed occupied an important position in the local Mughal Army declared his independence from the Mughal Empire and declared himself the 'Nawab' of the province. He called himself 'Nawab Haider Ali Bahadur' but lost the province to the Marathas from 1766 until 1774 when his son [[Tipu Sultan]], captured it for him.<ref>[Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for the Government, Volume I, Mysore in General]</ref>{{better source needed|date=June 2016}}

==See also==
* [[Province of Sira]]
* [[Sira, India]]
* [[Tumkur]]
* [[Tumkur District]]
* [[Taluks of Karnataka]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* [http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist_karnataka_bangalore.asp List showing protected monuments] [[Archaeological Survey of India]], Bangalore circle, (For Sira, see Sl. No: 198 & 199)
*"Large nesting colony of Painted storks identified near Sira (Karnataka)" Ameen Ahmed, Myforest (''Quarterly Journal of Karnataka Forest Department''), March 1999
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080615212315/http://www.deccanherald.com/CONTENT/May192008/district2008051868733.asp "Plea to protect fort in Sira"] (''Deccan Herald'', Bangalore, 19 May 2008)

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070211091713/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar162006/metrothurs1539312006315.asp 'Lost in wilderness' A story on Kaggaladu in Deccan Herald]

[[Category:Taluks of Karnataka]]
[[Category:Cities and towns in Tumkur district]]

Sira Taluk - Revision history

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