Punjab District Gazetteers. Kangra District 1924-25 With Map

It is bounded on the north-east by the Great Himalayan range which forms the valley of.the upper Indus and separates the District from the Tibetan region of Rupshu and the territories of the Chinese Empire; on the south-east by the Hill States of Bashahr Mandi and Biltispur ; on the south-west by the District of Hoshiiirpur ; and on the north-west by the Chakki torrent which divides it from the [...] It is divided into seven Tahsils of which five lie in Kangrit Proper and two in the Kulu Sub-Division : of the former three Hamirpur Dehra and Nfirpur lie along the south-western border of the District where it adjoins the plains and the Siwaliks while the liângri and Nlampur Tahsils form the northern boundary and lie at the foot of the main range of the outer Himalayas Nlampur Tahsil bein [...] There are three main ranges of the Himalayas to be taken into account in the description of this District— the first the outer Himalayan range already alluded to ; the second the mid-Himalayan or central range of the system ; and the third the Western Himalaya which forms the southern limit of the valley of the Upper Indus. [...] The word Kangra means Fort of the ear ' and the tradition about the demon Jalandhar is that he fell on his side with the right ear upwards—the.head in the Kangra valley the ear under the fort the mouth at Jwalaji the back at.lullundur and the feet at Mullen. [...] Then succeed the Ban Gangi running under the walls of Kangra and the Gaj memorable as the route by which a.siege train of artillery in 1896 attained the upper valleys ; the Dehr which flows past the fortress of Kotla is a tributary of the Gaj; lastly comes the Chakki which now forms the boundary of the District separating it from Gurdaspur.