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Punjab.

Date:: 1908

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Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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selves are very ancient, though it is impossible to determine their date. All that can be said is that they are older than the visit of Timur (1398). The tomb of the famous saint Baba Farid, at Pakpattan, is supposed to have been built about 1267 and was repaired by Flroz Shah. The style is simple and desti- tute of ornament. There are.-shrines at Shergarh and Hujra, decorated with floral designs and dating from about 1600. Montgomery District contains 3 towns and 1,371 villages. The Its population at the last four enumerations was : (1868) 360,445^ (1881) 426,529, (1891) 499^521; and (1901) 497;7o6. In seasons of drought large numbers of people migrate to the Chenab Colony, where their friends or relatives have obtained grants; but when there is- a prospect of a good harvest they return to their homes. The District is divided into four tahsi/s: Montgomery, Gugera, DIpalpur, and Pakpattan. The head-quarters of these tahsils are at the places from which each is named. The towns are the municipalities of Mont- gomery, the head-quarters of the District, Kamalia, and Pakpattan. The principal statistics of population in 1901 are shown below :— Tahsil. Area in square miles. Number of Population. Population per square mile. Percentage of variation in population be- tween 1891 and 1901. Number of persons able to read and write. Towns. Villages. Montgomery . 1,471 2 218 76,573 52.1 — 18-2 4,732 Gugera . 824 • « • 341 119,622 145.2 + 5*4 3,907 Dipalpur. 978 • • • 458 179,735 183.8 - 0.4 6,378 Pakpattan 1,339 I 354 121,776 90.8 + 8.8 4,046 District total 4,771* 3 1,371 497,706 104.4 - 0.4 19,063 * The only figures available for the areas of tahsils are those derived from the revenue returns, and the 'tahsil densities have been calculated on the areas given in the revenue returns for 1900-1. These returns do not always cover the whole of the country comprised in a tahsil^ and hence the total of the tahsil areas does not agree with the District area as shown in the table above, which is the complete area as calculated by the Surv^ey department. The tracts not included in the revenue Survey are as a rule uninhabited or very sparsely populated. Muhammadans number 355,892, or more than 72 per cent, of the total; and there are 118,837 Hindus and 22,602 Sikhs. The density of population is considerably below the average for the Punjab (209 persons per square mile), and varies with the extent of cultivation from 52 in the Montgomery tahsil to 184 in DipMpur. The decrease of 18 per cent, in the Montgomery tahsil is due almost entirely to migration into the Chenab Colony. The language of the people is a form of Western Punjabi, Yery much tinged by the Multani dialect.

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