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Punjab.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    waterless for loo miles. Five miles from Bahawalpur, the North-Western Railway crosses the Sutlej by the magnificent iron-girder Empress Bridge, opened in 1878, 4,258 feet in length, consisting of 16 spans, each 250 feet long. The guesthouse or Nur Mahal, built in 1875 at a cost of 12 lakhs, is a hand- some building in the Italian style. The town possesses the Sadik Egerton College, the high school of the same name, an Anglo-vernacular middle school and a theological school, an orphanage, and two hospitals, one of which is the Jubilee Hospital for females, opened in 1898. It has a considerable trade and some flourishing industries, and contains a rice-husk- ing mill, to which is attached a cotton-ginning factory. The municipality was constituted in 1874. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 32,500, chiefly from octroi. The cantonment contains the lines of the Nizam regiment and the Imperial Service Camel Corps. Bijnot (Winjhrot).—Ancient fort in the Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28° 5' N. and 71° 45' E. According to tradition, it was erected by Raja Wanjho or Bija Bhatia, and demolished by Shahab-ud-dln Ghori in 1175, its first mention in history. Another tradition preserved by Colonel Tod assigns its foundation to Tunno, father of Bija Rai (the Bija of the former legend) and grandfather of Deoraj, the founder of Derawar. It was included in a fief of the Delhi empire under Altamsh, and subsequently formed part of the Sicbah of Multan. Garhi Ikhtiar Khan.—Town in the Khanpur tahsil of Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28^40' N. and 70° 39''E., 84 miles south-west of Bahawalpur town. Population (1901), 4,939. Founded by a governor of the Kalhora rulers of Sind, it was originally named Garhi Shadi Khan after him, but in 1753 a Daudputra chief wrested it from the Kalhoras. In 1806 Nawab Bahawal Khan II of Bahawalpur annexed it, and founded Khanpur in its vicinity. It has a considerable trade in dates, large groves of palm-trees surrounding the town, and formerly had a great reputation for the manufacture of arms. It is administered as a municipality, with an income in 1903—4 of Rs. 1,150, chiefly from octroi. Khairpur Town.—Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 29° 35' N. and 72° 18' E., 38 miles north-east of Bahawalpur town on the Southern Punjab Railway. Population (1901), 5,013. It is a decaying town, as the sand from the desert of Cholistan has for years been encroaching on it, but contains a school and
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