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Punjab.
Date:
1908
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![then it has been known to Muhammadans as Uch-i-Sharlf or ‘ Uch the Sacred.’ In spite of its undoubted antiquity, Uch is not mentioned by the earlier Muhammadan historians under that name. Raverty, however, identified it with the town of Bhatiah near Multan, mentioned by the historians of the Ghaznivid period as taken by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1006. Subsequently recaptured by Muhammad of Ghor, it became the chief city of Upper Sind under Nasir-ud-dm Kubacha, and was burnt by Jalal-ud-dln Khwarizmi in 1223. It was after- wards taken by Altamsh. Uch was a great centre of Muham- madan learning; for in 1227 we find Minhaj-ud-din, the Persian historian, made chief of the Firozi college there. Changes in the courses of the rivers gradually robbed it of its strategic importance ; and after many vicissitudes it was per- manently annexed to the Mughal empire under Akbar, being included by Abul Fazl ^mong the separate districts of the Subah of Multan. Uch is now a group of three villages, built on as many mounds, the debris of successive cities. It is still a place of great religious sanctity in the eyes of Muham- madans, and contains countless shrines, in charge of the Bokhari and Gilani Makhdums, who are descended from its original founders. Sir A. Cunningham compiled an interest- ing but unreliable account of Alexander’s operations in the country round Uch. [A. Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India^ pp. 242-8. ] Sirmur (or Nahan).—Hill State in the Punjab, under the Boun- political control of the Commissioner of the Delhi Division, paries,con- 7 • • 1 1 TT- -1 1 o / 1 o / TVT 1 figuration, lying amid the Himalayas, between 30 20 and 31 5 N. and and hill 77° 5' and 77° 55' E., on the west bank of the Jumna and ^Rer south of Simla. It has an area of 1,198 square miles, and its greatest length from east to west is 50 miles, and its extreme width from north to south 43 miles. It is bounded on the north by the Jubbal and Balsan States; on the east by the Dehra Dun District of the United Provinces; on the south by Ambala District and the Kalsia State of the Punjab ; and on the west by territory of the Patiala State and Keonthal. With the exception of the Kiarda Dun or valley which forms its south-eastern part, the whole State is hilly. Its southern border runs along the crest of the Outer Siwaliks. Parallel with these lies the Dharthi range; and the intervening valley is traversed by the Markanda river which flows west, and by the Bata which flows east. North-east of the Dharthi range lies the valley of the Jalal, a tributary of the Giri, which traverses the State in a winding course from north-west to south-east. A a 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29353415_0387.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
