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Punjab District Gazetteers. Gurdaspur District with Maps 1914

1915

On the north it is bounded by the territories of Jammu and Chamba on the south by the Amritsar District on the east by the Chakki river which divides it from Kangra and the Beas beyond which are the Hoshiarpur District and the Kapurthala State and on the west by the districts of Amritsar and Sialkot. [...] Of the four tahsils which comprise the district the two southern Batala and Gurdaspur are situated in the Bari Doab between the Beas and Ravi rivers and present the ordinary features of the submontane portions of the Punjab plains. [...] The Batala and Gurdaspur Tahsils indeed present no special feature except the wooded lines of the Bari Doab Canal but the rolling downs and ravines of the Bharari in Shakargarh the almost tropical vegetation of the Pathakot submontane and the variety of the low hills of the same tahsil are an agreeable change from the ordinary monotony of a plains district. [...] The disorganisation commenced by Nadir Shah's invasion was natually increased by this and the subsequent incursions of the Abdali while the Sikhs probably with the connivance of Adina Beg seized practically the whole of the country now included in the Gurdaspur District though they appear to have left the towns in the hands of the royal governors. [...] 24: The history of the district then degenerates into an account of the struggles of the rival Ramgarhia and Kanhaya Misals for supremacy in this part of the Doab : the power of the former was broken in 1808 and of the latter in 1811 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh who thus assumed sway over the whole district.
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Pages
55
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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Frontmatter
43-44 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
45-97 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view