cover image: Punjab District Gazetteers  Ferozepore District with Maps  1915

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Punjab District Gazetteers Ferozepore District with Maps 1915

1916

Broadly speaking it is bounded on the north-east by the river Sutlej which separates it from the Jullundur District and by the Kapurthala State the boundary of which does not quite agree with the present position of the river ; on the nortwest and west by the united stream of the Sutlej and Beas which divides it from the districts of Lahore and Montgomery ; on the east and south-east by the [...] Thus in the Muktsar Tahsil there are two quite distinct tracts called Rohi while in the Fazilka Tahsil the Hithar corresponds to what is elsewhere known as the Bet and the Utar is the continuation of the lower Rohi or Mudki plain known iMuktsar as the Hithar and the Rohi is the continuation of both the Muktsar Utar and Rohi. [...] In the south of Moga there is another depression which is a continuation of the drainage channel of the Akhara Jheel in Ludhiana ; this channel marks the boundary between the spheres of irrigation of the Bhatinda and Abohar Branches of the Sirhind Canal. [...] From its position Ferozepore may have been a mart for the produce of the hills and the rich of between them and Amritsar ; but being in the track of many of the hordes that ravaged the NortVirest Provinces the town and territory seem to have suffered even more than the rest of the country bordering on the Sutlej. [...] A few gun flints may still be picked up at Firozshah and the bones of cattle may still be seen whitening the plain of Mudki but there is no vestige of the entrenchment about Firozshah which has long ago given place to the furrows of the plough ; and the river flows over the ground on which stood the still stronger entrenchments of Sobraon."t By the result of the war the British Government acqui
government politics public policy
Pages
65
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Preface
577-577 M.M.L. Currie view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
578-628 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV.—Places of Interrest
629-640 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view