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Punjab District Gazetteer Rohtak District with Maps 1910

1911

The greatest length is 63 miles and the greatest breadth 43 while so compact a district is it that with the exception of a few villages in the extreme north of the Gohana tahsil and a band to the south of the Jhajjar tahsil running to a breadth of 12 miles; the whole district lies within a radius of 25 miles from the civil station of Rohtak which is the administrative head-quarters. [...] The district is bounded on the north by Jind territory and the Panipat tahsil of Kama' ; on the east by the Sonepat and Delhi tahsils of Delhi and the Gurgaon tahsil of Gurgaon; on the south by the Pataudi State the Rewari tahsil of Gurgaon and the Nahar villages of Dujana ; and on the west by the Dadri pargaua of Jind the Bhiwini and Ilansi tahsils of Hissar and the main territory of Jind. [...] The eastern border lies at the same low level as the Delhi branch of the Western Jumna Canal and the Najafgarh jhil into which flows the drainage of the Sahibi and Indori streams that cross the south-eastern corner of Jhajjar. [...] The Mahrattos returned in 1785 but could do little to repel the Sikh invasions and from 1785 to 1803 the north of the district was occupied by the Raja of Jind while the south and west were held precariously by the Mahrattas who were defied by the strong Jat villages and constanly attacked by the Sikhs. [...] The mutiny of the troops at Meerut on the 10th of May leir and the seizure of Delhi by them on the 11th took the Rohtak ditrict like the rest of North India by complete surprise.
government politics public policy
Pages
38
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Preface
329-329 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
330-365 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view