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Gazetteer of the Shahpur District 1883-4

1884

Oast& and by the Tali gang talesil of the Jhelum district on the east by the Gujrat district and by the Chenab which separates it from Gujrinwilla by the south by the Jhang district and on the west and north-west by the districts of Dera Ismail Khin and &Jinn: It is divided into three tahsils of which that of Bhera lies to the east and comprises so much of the cis-Jhelum portion of the distri [...]. The most important physical sub-divisions of the district are the Salt Range in the north the valleys of the Jhelum and Chenib and the plains between those rivers and between the Jhelum and the Salt Range. [...] The portion of the chain of hills called the Salt Range icluded within the limits of this district.connnern?es at the village of Padhrar on the east and ends on the west at the Sakesar hill the highest peak in the range a total length of about forty miles. [...] 'Vegetation of the Amb fertilizes the lands of the border village of Kiri Golewali But of the many channels by which the drainage of the Salt Range is conducted into the plains the first named is the only one that holds a constant supply of water. [...] successive inroads of the Afghans followed by the rapid acquisition of power by the Sikhs ; and the last the period during which by a happy admixture of boldness and artifice the young leader of the Sukar Chakia mis/ succeeded in making himself master of the whole of the Punjab from the banks of the Sutlej to the mountains of Sulemin.
government politics public policy
Pages
40
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Preface
304-304 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Shahpur
305-342 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view