Punjab District Gazetteers. Hoshiarpur District with Maps 1904

HOSHIARPUR is a District of the Jullundur Division comprise ing.so much of the Siwalik Range as ties between the Sutlej and Beas together with a broad strip of country at the foot of the range and the greater portion of the valley of the Sohán which-lies between it and the outer Himalayas. [...] The Tahsfls of Dastiya Hoshiarpur and Garhshankar comprise the alluvial plain and the western slopes of the Siwiliks up to the watershed ; the former however extends across the Siwaliks to the Sohán. [...] The District was annexed by the British with the rest of the Jullundur Doab at the close of the first Sikh iVar. [...] J. (afterwards Lord) Lawrence became the first Commissioner of the trans-Sutlej States in March 1846 and the Division was administered by him in direct correspondence with the Supreme Government until 1848 when the Commissioner was made subordinate to the Resident at Lahore and in 1849 when the rest of the Punjab was annexed to the Board of Administration. [...] from the Chintpurni Range to the Jullundur boundary ; Una and Garhshankar in the southern portion of the District the watershed of the Siwaliks forming the boundary between them.