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Punjab.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with sand-dunes rising in places to a height of 500 feet. To the north lie the central uplands, and beyond them the alluvial lowlands along the Sutlej and Panjnad. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1905-6 to 2*2 lakhs. Allahabad Tahsil.— Tahstl in the Bahawalpur nizdmat State, Punjab, lying south of the Panjnad, between 27° 42'and 29° 12^ N. and 70° 38' and 71° 5' E., with an area of 1,355 square miles. The population in 1901 was 57,517, compared with 54,950 in 1891. It contains the town of Allahabad (population, 2,868), the head-quarters, and the two other municipalities of Khan Bela and Jaunpur; and 65 villages. It is traversed by the Hakra, south of which lies the desert. The portion of the tahsil which lies in the lowlands along the river is the most fertile, and also the most unhealthy, in the State. Between this and the Hakra lie the central up- lands. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1905-6 to 2 lakhs. Minchinabad Tahsil.—Head-quarters tahsil of the nhdmat of the same name, Bahawalpur State, Punjab, lying on the left bank of the Sutlej, between 29° 53' and 30° 25'' N. and 73° 2' and 73° 58' E., with an area of 603 square miles. The population in 1901 was 72,272, compared with 68,070 in 1891. It contains the town of Minchinabad (population, 2,558), the head-quarters, and 235 villages. The tahsil lies for the most part in the lowlands of the Sutlej valley. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1905-6 to 2*1 lakhs. Nahr Sadikiyah (or Cholistan).—Tahsil in the Minchin- abad nhdmat^ Bahawalpur State, Punjab, lying between 29° 29' and 30° 18' N. and 73° 7' and 74° i' E., with an area of 625 square miles. The population in 1901 was 26,758, com- pared with 23,215 in 1891. It contains r27 villages. The tahsil is called after the Sadikiyah canal, which runs through it from end to end, and wall, when completed, have a total length of 120 miles. The tahsil^ which has only recently been formed out of a portion of the Minchinabad tahsil^ will have its head-quarters at the new town of Sadikganj, near the M^Leodganj Road junction of the main line and the Feroze- pore-lSHLeodganj Road branch of the Southern Punjab Rail- way. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1905-6 to Rs. 41,000. Khairpur Tahsil.— Tahsil in the Minchinabad nizdmat^ Bahawalpur State, Punjab, lying on the left bank of the Sutlej, between 28° 49' and 30° N. and 72° 7' and 73° 18' E., wdth an area of 2,300 square miles. The population in 1901 was
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