cover image: Punjab District Gazetteers  Jhang District  with Map  1929

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Punjab District Gazetteers Jhang District with Map 1929

1930

Station is situated was transferred from the Lyallpur District and was attached to the The surface of the district presents three levels—on the extreme west the high sand-dunes of the Thal in the centre the two low-lying river valleys and on the extreme east a portion of the old Sandal Bar. [...] The chief features of the tract lying between the river valley and the Thal and known as the Kachhi - are the predominance of kallar and the absence of natural vegetation. [...] These mounds of which the principal is that at Shorkot are dotted about the higher lands of the southern portion of the district and again occur in the Vichhan which suffers from floods both from the Chenab and the Jhelum.; hut in the north owing to the higher level of the country above the river such precautions against floods were unnecessary and no mounds are found. [...] This is Hir's tomb and the grave within is the grave of Hir the heroine of the love-story of Hir and Ranjha one version of which is given in Swynnerton's Romantic Tales from the Punjab." The story is common to the Muhammadan Rajput tribes of the North Punjab but the version given in the above volume is peculiarly a Sial legend. [...] The fair held at the tomb on the 1st Magh is eceedingly popular with the womenfolk and the following rmark made by Swynnerton is to the point: " The women" of the Punjab find in the story of Hir and Ranjha an epression of that reasonable liberty of action to which they vainly aspire and a triumphant vindication of the inalieable rights of their sex of which centuries of wrong and op.
government politics public policy
Pages
35
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
219-245 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV.—Places of Interest
246-252 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view