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Punjab District Gazetteers. Muzaffargarh District with Maps 1929

1930

70° and 71'5° E. consists of a triangular block of land running north and south tetween the Indus and Chenab Rivers with its base to the north and its apex at the confluence of the End us and Chenab Rivers the Chenab here consisting of the united waters of the five rivers of the Punjab. [...] On the north the district touches the Mianwali and 'Mang Districts on the east the Jiang and Multan Districts and the Bahawalpur State and cn the west the Dera Ghazi Khan District and the Dera Ismail Khan District of the North-West Frontier Province. [...] The prosperity of the district depends upon the inundtion canals and their maintenance is a most difficult problem owing to the constant need of new heidworks due to the vagaries of the rivers and the difficulty of reconciling supply of water in -the earlier months of the hot weather with prvention of overflooding in the monsoon season. [...] At the end of the fifteenth century the Biloches began to issue from the hills and occupied the country on the left bank of the Indus from Sitpur to Sot Karor in the Leiah Tahsil. [...] H. 1152) Sadi; Muhammad Khan obtained the title of nawab from Nadir Shah and in the anarchy following the invasion of Nadir Shah he succeeded in seizing the country hounded by the Sutlej on the north Bikaner on the east Sindh on the south and the Indus on the west.
government politics public policy
Pages
41
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-183 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
184-221 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view