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Punjab District Gazetteers. Ambala District 1923-24 With Maps

1925

If the possibility of this be granted the failure in the water-supply is easily accounted for by the greater volume of water now drawn off for irrigation and by the silting up of the river beds caused by the dams employed south of Arabila to divert the water over the fields. [...] The two great rivers of the district the Sutlej on the nortwest and the Janina on the east are utilized for the Sirhind and Western Jamna Canal systems the head works of the fomer being at Raper and of the latter at Tajawala in the Jagdhii tahsil. [...] As the ORA nun I E. central ' Over of the Empire relaxed under the blows of the Mahratta on the one Side and the Durini on the other the' Sikh marauders of the Punjab proper began to extend their The sikb4 encroachments beyond the Sutlej and ere long acquired for themselves the heart of the country between that river and the Jatona. [...] On the other hand the British Government feared a new danger from the north by the combined invasion of the French the Turks and the Persians and it was hastily decided to give up the Jamna as the boundary and to trust to the new principle of alliance with a strong buffer State at Lahore. [...] At the same time Goernment scrupulously observed the engagements of 1809 and with the exception of the prohibition of internal war by the proclamation of 1811 the powers and privileges of the chiefs remained untouched.
government politics public policy
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-2 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Preface
3-3 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I. The District
4-53 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV.—Places of Interrest
54-69 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view