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Date:: 1908

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$71° 16' E.^ 20 miles south-west of Bahawalpur town on the North-\\estern Railway. Population (1901), 9,938. Founded in 1748 by a Daudputra chieftain^ it was given in dower to Nawab Bahawal Khan II of Bahawalpur in 1782. I’he town possesses an Anglo-vernacular middle school, a theological school, and a dispensary. Its trade, chiefly in carbonate of soda, is considerable, and it manufactures shoes and earthen- ware on a large scale for export. The town is administered as a municipality, with an income in 1903-4 of Rs. 12,100, chiefly derived from octroi. Ahmadpur West Town i^Ahmadpur Lamma). — Head- quarters of the Ahmadpur Lamma tahsll^ Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28° N. and 70° 7' E., 4 miles north- west of Sadikabad on the North-Western Railway. Population (1901), 5,343. It was founded by Ahmad Khan of the Daudputra tribe, which ‘ruled Bahawalpur, about 1800, and was originally the capital of a separate principality annexed to that State in 1806. The town possesses an Arabic school and some Muhammadan buildings of interest. It is adminis- tered as a municipality, with an income in 1903-4 of Rs. 4,300, chiefly from octroi. It is noted for its mango gardens. Allahabad Town.—Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28° 57^ N. and 70° 53' E., 56 miles south-west of Bahawalpur town. Population (1901), 2,868. It was founded about 1730 by Nawab Sadik Muhammad Khan I of Bahawalpur. The town contains a rice-husking mill and has a large trade in rice and dates, and is administered as a municipality, with an income in 1903-4 of Rs. 3,100, chiefly from octroi. Bahawalpur Town.—Capital of the Bahawalpur State, Punjab, and head-quarters of the Bahawalpur nizdrnat and tahsil^ situated in 29° 24' N. and 71° 47' E., on the North- Western Railway, on the south bank of the Indus, 65 miles south of Multan. Population {1901), 18,546. Founded in 1748 by Nawab Bahawal Khan I, it replaced Derawar as the capital of the State. The town is surrounded by a mud wall 4 miles in circuit. The palace built by Nawab Sir Sadik Muhammad Khan IV in 1882 is a vast square pile, with towers at each corner. The reception hall in the centre is 60 feet long and 56 high, the vestibule being 120 feet high. The palace contains underground apartments, where the thermo- meter remains at about 70°, while it rises to 100° and even 110° in the upper rooms. From the roof an extensive view is gained over the vast desert of Bikaner, which stretches away$

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