Punjab District Gazetteer. Gurgaon District 1910

It is bounded on the north-east by the Delhi district ; on the east by the Jamna which separates it from the districts of Bulandshahr and Aligarh of the United Provinces ; on the south by the Mathra district of the United Provinces and by the State of Bhartpur ; on the west by the Alwar State ; on the soutwest (that is south of the Re wiiri tahsil by the Jaipur pagana of Kot Ktisim by the [...] On account of the numerous hill ranges the scenery of emery the greater part of the district is pleasing and escapes the monotony of the ordinary district of the Punjab plains. [...] The hardness of the life and the precarious nature of the cultvation cause the tenants who are of the worst cultivating classes to desert their villages and there is a constant danger of the land falling out of cultivation : the lands which border on the river generally remain uncultivated and are covered with a thick growth of Ado (tamarisk) and pact (munj grass) which shelter destructive [...] The salient points of the history are the turbulence of the Mewitis who relying on the strength of their hill retreats plundered the country far and wide whenever the central authority was from any cause temporarily weakened ; the severe measures from time to time adopted to repress them ; and the important parts played in the time of Tainnir by Bahadar Nilhar the reputed founder of the Khafiz [...] Thirteen villages and parts of five other villages were confiscated for various acts of rebellion and murder besides four estates which had belonged to Tula Rim and Gopal Deo and the history of the Mutiny may now be closed with the record of one of its results the transfer of the district with the rest of the Delhi territory hot% the North-West Provinces to the Punjab in the beguining of 1858 C