Kachh Gandava or Kachhi is a low-lying flat region in Balochistan, Pakistan separating the Bugti hills from those of Kalat. It remained an administrative district of Sindh under the Soomras, Sammas, Arghuns and Turkhans, Mughals and Kalhoras. The Nadir Shah of Persia transferred the district to Kalat Khanate after displacing the Kalhoras.[1][2] Kachhi was notified as a district in February 1965. At that time Naseerabad, Jhal Magsi, Jafarabad, Usta Muhammad and Sohbatpur districts were included, these were separated in 1987.[citation needed]
Kach Gandava is driven, like a wedge, into the frontier mountain system and extends for 150 miles from Jacobabad to Sibi, with nearly as great a breadth at its base on the Sindh frontier. The soil is fertile wherever it can be irrigated by the floods brought down from the surrounding hills; but much of the central portion is sandy waste. It is traversed by the North-Western railway.[2]
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- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kach Gandava". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 626.
