Sultanpur, Jhelum

Sultanpur or State of Sultanpur (ریاست سُلطانپُور) was a Muslim (Non Salute) Princely state in the days of British Raj and ruled by the Sultan tribe of Rajputs. Located in the Rawalpindi District in the Punjab Province of modern-day Pakistan. The State was named after its founder Sultan Byzaid and the Sultan family ruled the state from 1809 to 1950. It had a population of 1,083 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 8,746 Rupees (mostly from land).

State of Sultanpur ریاست سُلطانپُور
Former Princely State of Pakistan
Sultanpur
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Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
District	Rawalpindi District
Established	1809
Accession into Pakistan	1947
State Abolished	1950
Founded by	Sultan Byzaid Khan
Government
• First Ruler	Sultan Byzaid Khan
• Last Ruler	Sultan Sher Zaman
Area
• Total	28.18 sq mi (73 km2)

The state was founded in 1809 when Ranjit Singh, The Ruler of the Sikh Empire, granted the area to Sultan Byzaid Khan who formed The State of Sultanpur. There was some uncertainty to whether Sultanpur was ranked as a full princely state in India, until then it had status of a Vassal State. Sultanpur had been under suzerainty of the Sikh Empire until 1850, when it accepted a British protectorate, entering into a subsidiary alliance with British India.

In 1947, soon after the British had departed from the Indian subcontinent, the last ruler of Sultanpur Sultan Sher Zaman signed an Instrument of Accession to the new Dominion of Pakistan, and Sultanpur was a princely state of Pakistan from then until August 1950, when it was incorporated into the Punjab Province.

The territory covered by the state remains part of the present-day Punjab, as a Union Council.