The
Tarikh-i-Masumi and/or
Tuhfat-ul-Kiram first allude to Kakrala sometime between 1566 and 1568; it calls Kakrala "by the seashore" and says its ruler at the time was Jam Desar. In January 1573 (Ramadan, 980 AH),
Amir Shah Qasim was appointed to govern Kakrala, which was in tumult at the time. In 1738 (1151 AH), the Jam of Kakrala joined with Raja Ajmal of
Dharajah in an unsuccessful campaign against
Muhammad Muradyab Khan (then just the son of
Mian Nur Muhammad). In 1744 (1157 AH), the Kakrala ruler Jam Hothi was defeated and killed by someone named Shekh Shukrullah, who installed Jam Mahar to succeed him. Shortly after Muhammad Muradyab Khan was installed as ruler of Sindh, he invaded Kakrala and defeated the Jam, who was "removed from
Kodariah and confined at Kakrala, his head-quarters". Under the resulting treaty, Muhammad Muradyab Khan annexed the territories of
Ochta,
Lanjari,
Miran, and
Kachah; he fortified each of these places and designated Kachah as the "chief centre of stores". Two years later, Muhammad Muradyab Khan wanted to invade Kakrala again, but the Kalhoro nobles refused to take part because they didn't want to break the treaty, and they ended up forming a conspiracy to dethrone him and replace him with his brother
Mian Ghulam Shah. In 1760, Jam Desar of Kakrala, who had taken advantage of Ghulam Shah's absence from
Shahgarh to lead an incursion into Kalhoro territory, was defeated by a group of generals, including one named Muhammad Siddik Wais, who had been dispatched to deal with him. Then in 1761, he was made to leave the fort of
Abad and go to
Kutch, while his son Hardarji was kept as a hostage by Mian Ghulam Shah. Kakrala was one of the
parganas of Lower Sindh under the
Talpur dynasty. It was governed by a "sazāwal-kār", or revenue collector, with several
munshis (writers) to assist in its administration. ==References==