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Punjab District Gazetteers. Attock District With Maps 1930

1932

The slope of the land towards the Indus being gradual the natural course of the Chel is winding and the bed tended to silt and increased the occasional morasses of Baron Hugel's time into what was for the first quarter of this century the huge Hatti Jhil. [...] Neither the wells nor the alluvial lands of the Wadala can compare in fertility with the more favoured valleys of the Sil and the Soon while the drifting sand of the stream's bed is always spreading and enveloping the fields along its banks. [...] The Jandil Thirdly distinct equally from this area and from the rest of these tahsils is the remaining portion of the central plateau which abuts on the Indus stretches from the Reshi on the south to the Kali Chitta Range on the north and is known as the Jand41. [...] Beginning on the border of the 13Awalpindi District it runs steep and almost trackless in a south-westerly direction through the middle of the Fatehjang Tahsil separates the central plain or Gheb from the Soan Valley to the south and dies away on the Pindigheb border in a series of small spurs running down to the bank of the Soan river. [...] This authority holds that the Takkas were the earliest inhabitants of this part of the country after the Aryas who are supposed to have come into it about the middle of the second millennium B. C. The tract between the Indus and Jhelum known as Samma is supposed to have been held by Anavas of the Timur race Peshawar and the country west of the Indus by the Gandhitrits.
government politics public policy
Pages
60
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
3-3 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Preface
4-4 C.C. Garbett view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
5-49 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV.—Places of Interest
50-62 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view