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Punjab States Gazetteers. Bahawalpur State with Maps 1904

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which separates it from the Montgomery and 'Multan Districts of the Punjab then by the combined waters of the Sutlej and Cheinib which separate it from the Muzaffargarh District of the Punjab and finally from the point where the joint streams meet the Indus by the Indus which divides it from the Punjab District of Dera Ghzi Khan and that of Jacobabad in Sind. [...] They have been left deserted in a great measure in consequence of the westering tendencym of all the great Punjab rivers and the rise of the country) from the edge of the central tract to the present bed of the rivers shows that the earliest course of both the Sutlej and Indus was along the edge of the central tract and that they have worked northwards and westwards to their present positions. [...] And the second is cuxiously confirmed by certain loops in either side of its course and which the people say were the distributaries of the huge canal.f4) Whatever the facts dimly commemorated in these legends may have been the people regard the Trukri and Gurhila as one and the same stream but Colonel Minchin was dispd to identify the Trtikri with the old bed of the Bak and to regard the Gurhi [...] General Cunningham has shown that the Indus was joined by the Chentib opposite the town of Uch and the old line of the river can be traced from this point to Firoza in the bed of the old vtul_sh Canal and in his description of the changes in the course of the Baia be states that "in most of our maps the old Bois is conducted into the lower course of the Bhatiyari whereas its still existing an [...] This induced the Blititiya to attack Dahir ; but the latter totally defeated the former by the assistance of the mercenaries of the tribe of the Alafis —a tribe that had taken refuge in the territory of Dahir who had left Makrtin after having killed the governor of the place.
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Pages
178
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
384-385 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
386-469 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter III.—Administrative
470-485 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV.—Places of Interest
486-526 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Index
1-35 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view