cover image: Punjab District Gazetteers. Muzaffargarh District  Leiah Tahsil  with 3 Maps  1916

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Punjab District Gazetteers. Muzaffargarh District Leiah Tahsil with 3 Maps 1916

1919

Beyond the river lie the districts of Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Ghazi Khalof the former district the Dera Ismail Khan tahsil forms the boundary for the first three miles and the Kulachi tahsil for the next seventeen. [...] This belt is on the average some eight miles wide and is abruptly succeeded on the east by the high-lying sandy plain of the Sind-Sagan Doab of which the whole of the rest of the ttihsil is constituted. [...] All the traditions of the people go to show that an immigrtion of mixed tribes of Jats (Siyars Chinahs Khokhars &c.) set in about the beginning of the 15th century from the Multan and Bahawalpur direction and that they gradually pasied up the valley of the Indus to the Mianwali talisa occupying the intevening country. [...] The Ghazi Khans held the LeiahVerall the province as part of the Ghazi territory much as the Hots of (-h.ets in Dera held Darya Khan neither of them having their head-quaLeiah of the ters in the CisIndus lahsils. [...] At the beginning of the 17th century the Jaskanis ruled over Bhakkar and Leiah and across the Thal to Extent of the Jaskaui the Chenab side.
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Pages
28
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Preface
ii-ii Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Part A. Chapter I.—Descriptive
225-250 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view