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Punjab District Gazetteers Delhi District with Maps 1912

1913

The Dabar lies to the west of the hills and consists of the low basin which is the receptacle for drainage from the hills and parts of the neighbouring districts of Gurgaon and Rohtak. [...] The country between the Agra Road and the hills to the west begins to get level a feW miles below Badarpur ; it is mostly sandy bearing the detritus from the hill slopes and in the rainy months is marshy and in places flooded : the passage of the water is toward the south where it debouches at the top of the Palwal tahsil. [...] The only important features are the protective bands at the headworks the super-passage of the Tekhand stream at Ali and the syplizt by which the Bhuriya torrent is allowed to pass towards the Jamna : the pressure of this lasnamed torrent is so strong that as a precautionary measure the canal authorities have to keep at the critical times as much as nine feet of water in the canal over the [...] " The greatest city in the world " he says " had the fewest inhabitants." Of the tomb of Ghitis-ud-Din Tughlak the following description occurs in the Arehmology of Delhi :- " It is situated in the midst of an artificial lake fed by the overflowing of the Hauz Shamsi and by a lot of natural drains whioh flowed into the base of the fort and which at one time must have formed one of its natural [...] It is as impossible within the limits of the present account as it would be out of place to attempt to trace the history of the collapse of the Mughal empire under the repeated blows dealt by A.hmac] Shah Durani on the one hand and the Mahrattas the other.
government politics public policy
Pages
89
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
401-402 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Preface
403-403 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
404-489 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view