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Punjab.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a dispensary. The municipality had an income in 1903-4 of Rs. 6,200, chiefly from octroi. Khanpur Town.—Head-quarters of the 7iizdmat and tahsil of the same name in Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28° 39' N. and 70° 41'' E., on the North-Western Railway, 63 miles south-west of Bahawalpur town. Population (1901), 8,611. Founded in 1806 by Nawab Bahawal Khan II as a counterpoise to Garhi Ikhtiar Khan, which lies 6 miles to the west, the town is now the chief centre of the trade in agricultural produce in the State, and contains three steam rice-husking mills, in one of which cotton-ginning is carried on as well. It possesses a middle school and a dispensary. The municipality had an income in 1903-4 of Rs. 12,800, chiefly from octroi. Marot.—Ancient fort in the Khairpur iahsll of Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 29° 10' N. and 72° 28' E., on the south bank of the Hakra depression. It was probably erected by Mahrut, king of Chitor, an opponent of Chach, the Brahman usurper of the throne of Sind. It was a place of some impor- tance in the early Muhammadan period, lying on the direct road from Multan to Delhi via Sarsuti (Sirsa). It was wrested by the Nawab of Bahawalpur from Jaisalmer in 1749. Minchinabad Town.—Head-quarters of the tahsil and 7iizd?7iat of the same name in Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situ- ated in 30° 10' N. and 73° 34' E., on the Southern Punjab Railway, in the north-eastern corner of the State. Population (1901), 2,558. It was named after the late Colonel Charles Minchin, Political Agent in Bahawalpur, 1866-76. The town contains a dispensary, has a large manufacture of saltpetre, and is a great centre of the export trade in grain. The municipality had an income in 1903—4 of Rs. 6,100, chiefly from octroi. Naushahra Town.—Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28° 25' N. and 70° 19' E., 109 miles south-west of Bahawalpur town. Population (1901), 4,475. The town contains a rice-husking mill, founded in 1901, and a dispensary. The municipality had an income in 1903-4 of Rs. 3,700, chiefly from octroi. Pattan Munara.—Ancient ruin in the Naushahra tahsil of Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28° 15^ N. and 70° 22' E., 5 miles east of Rahlrnyar Khan. At the close of the eighteenth century the remains of four towers surrounding the central tower of a Buddhist monastery still existed here, but only the lower storey of the central tower now remains. Tradition avers that it had three storeys, and that the extensive mounds around it are the ruins of a city which was over 100 square miles in PUN. II. A a
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