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Punjab District Gazetteers. Hissar District 1915

1916

It is bounded on the south by the Dadri territory of B"ndstisaa.:4 rem Jind and the Native State of Loharu ; on the east by the British district of Rohtak and the Native States of Jind and Patiala the latter of which also stretches along its norteast border on the north it is bounded by the Ferozepore District ; and on the west by the prairies of Bikaner. [...] The dab the principal grass of the tract has given the name of Daban to the villages on the main stream of the Ghaggar. [...] The nearest approach to one is the Ghaggar stream which flows across the northern parts of Tahsils Fateha bad and the central portion of the Sirsa Tahsil and which has been identified with the sacred Saraswati the lost river of the Indian desert." The Ghaggar rises on the outer Himalayan ranges between the Jumna and the Sutlej enters the plain as a rapid and variable mountain torrent passes [...] The latter embraced the whole of the present district inclusive of the Sirsa Tahsil and parts of the modern Rohtak District and of territory now included in Bikaner and in the Sikh States to the east. [...] With the accession of Ahmad Shain 1748 the disintegrtion of the empire advanced apace and the present Hissar District became the scene of a sort of triangular duel between the sturdy Sikhs of the north-east the marauding Bhattis of the north and north-west and the Musalmans of the south.
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Pages
61
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
139-140 P. J. Fagan, C. A. H. Townshed view
Punjab District Gazetteers. Hissar District 1915
141-199 P. J. Fagan, C. A. H. Townshed view