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Punjab District Gazetteers. Gujrat District With Maps 1921

1921

It is bounded on the norteast by the Jammu territory of the Maharaja of Kashmir : on the north-west by the river Jhelum which separates it from the British district of the same name ; on the south by the river Chenab separating it from the districts of Gujranwala and Sialkot ; on the east by the river Tawi which divides it from the Bajwat or northernmost paragnah of the Sialkot District; and [...] The northern corner of the district is cut off from the Jhelum by a range of hills wihich commencing on the frontier of this district five miles below the town of Bhitnbar in Jammu passes in a straight line to the south-West till it strikes the Jhelum immediately above the village of Rasul: After allowing a passage for the river it rises on the opposite bank and trending northwards joins the Sa [...] In the hot weather when the river is swollen by the melting of snow in Kashmir and by the rains it rises to a stream two miles wide and then the combined demands of the Upper Jhelum and the Lower Jhelum Canal take but a small part of the total supply. [...] Sometimes they would even be given a contract for the revenue of their respective sails." In the collections made from the cultivators whether in the portions of the district retained by State (khalsa) or in the rmainder of the district the general rule followed was that of division of the crops (hats ) the share taken by the State by the farmer of the ja.girdar being calculated at one-ha [...] Further just east of Gujrat across the bed of the Doara is a small cemetery with the graves of the officers and men killed in the battle of Gujrat 21st February 1849.] Constitution The whole country of the Chaj Doab from the Jammu border to the junction of the Chenab and Jhelum; formed in the luent &saga.
government politics public policy
Pages
33
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Introduction
185-186 H.S. Williamson view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
187-214 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Appendix I-A
215-215 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Appendix I-B
216-216 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view