Indian Statutory Commission. Memorandum Submitted by the Government of the Punjab to the Indian Statutory Commission

The second consequence of the First Sikh War was the cession by the Lahore.Government of the area between the Sutlej and the Beas in the plains and of Chamba and Kashmir in the hills. [...] with the Pathan tribes of the Frontier were in the hands of the Punjab Govern.: went were not accepted as saiolactory by Lord Curzon's Government and in 1901 nearly all the territory to the west of the Indus was cut oil from the Punjab and placed under the administration of a Chief Commissioner ; as also was the hill district of Hazard. The.Punjab retained west of the Indus only the Dera Ghaz [...] Whatever the correctness of the picture drawn from one side or the other of the years immediately preceding the War it is clear that during the period of the War itself the attention of the province was concentrated under the leadership of Sir Michael O'Dwyer in an unique degree on the organization' of assistance to the Imperial cause. [...] Nevetheless it is strictly true to say that the Brahmans of the Punjab do not as such exert any greater political influence than for instance that wielded by the Khatris the Hindu trading and professional community of the Central Punjab ; *In considering the occupations of the inmuburs of the various religions wa have to consider the distributi9n of the 23 millions living in the Punjab inct [...] The country of these tribes is bounded on the west by the country of tribes administered from Quetta by the Governor-General's Agent for Baluchistan and on the north by the territory of other tribes under the control of the Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province.