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Gazetteer of the Ludhiana District 1904

1904

The people of the eastern portion speak of the south-west of the District including our detached villages and part of Jagrion Tahsil with the Patiala and other.territories as the Jangal and as a country where although the rainfall is scanty the produce of the unirrigated crops is very fine; where the land is new and there is plenty of it ; where instead of the constant drudgery necessary unde [...] Perhaps the greatest interest attaches to the country as the scene of the struggles between rising Sikhism and the hfuhammadans ; and when at the beginning of the last century the English power extended northwards the Sutlej was fixed as the limit of its territories ; and Ludhiana was for nearly half a century our frontier garrison at the point where we were in contact with the only remaining inde [...] It is to the reign of Akbar (1556-1605) that most of the people in the eatstern part of the District ascribe the advent of their ancestors and the founding of their villages and it is most probable that before the commencement of the 16th century there were only a few villages scattered over the District (mostly Riihuit) and that the great immigration of Jats who occupy the whole of the uplands [...] During the century-and-a-half which followed the death of Akbar historical interest centres for this part of the country in the rise of Sikhism as a power and the coustant struggles between first the followers of the Gurus and latterly the Phulkiiin and other Sikh chiefs on the one hand and the local representatives of the empire on the other. [...] Sikh war; but a short notice of our position south of the Sutlej is necessary as the neighbourhood of Ludhiana was the scene of part of the struggle between us and the Kluilsa army and the position was throughout of the first importance.
government politics public policy
Pages
56
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
643-691 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV.—Places of Interest
692-697 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view