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Punjab.

Date:: 1908

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Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Shamsher cantonment for the State troops, while to the east is a.small grassy plain surrounded by houses and public buildings. The town is administered by a municipal board, and possesses a school, a civil and a military hospital, a jail, a police station, and other offices. On a spur east of the town lies the Shamsher Villa, built in the Italian style by Raja Sir Shamsher Parkash, G.C.S.L, in i88i. The iron foundry employs 600 men. Loharu State.—Native State in the Punjab, under the political control of the Commissioner of the Delhi Division, lying between 28° 21' and 28° 45' N. and 75° 40'and 75° 57' E., with an area of 222 square miles. Population (1901), 15,229. The State contains the town of Loharu, its capital (popu- lation, 2,175), and 56 villages. It consists of a sandy plain, interspersed with sandhills. The founder was Ahmad Bakhsh Khan, a Mughal, who was employed by the Raja of Alwar in negotiations with Lord Lake in 1803. In recognition of his services, he received Loharu in perpetuity from the Raja, and the pargana of Llrozpur, now in Gurgaon District, from Lord Lake on condition of fidelity and military service. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Shams-ud-din Khan, who was executed at Delhi for compassing the murder of Mr. Eraser, the Resident, in 1835. The Llrozpur pargana was then confis- cated, but the Loharu estate was made over to Amln-ud-din Khan and Zia-ud-dln Khan, the two brothers of Shams-ud-din. The two chiefs remained in Delhi during the siege in 1857, and after its fall were placed under surveillance, but were eventually released and restored to their position. Ala-ud-dTn, who succeeded his father Amln-ud-din in 1869, received the title of Nawab, together with a sanad of adoption. The present Nawab, Sir Amir-ud-dTn Ahmad Khan, K.C.I.E., had for some years managed the State on behalf of his father, Ala-ud-dln, and succeeded on the death of the latter, in 1884. Lrom 1893 to 1903 its management was in the hands of his younger brother, as the Nawab had been appointed Superintendent of the Mffier Kotla State. Nawab Sir Amlr-ud-dln Ahmad Khan enjoys a salute of 9 guns, granted as a personal distinction on January i, 1903. The revenue of the State from all sources amounts to Rs. 66,000, but the finances were adversely affected by the famines of 1889 and 1901. The State receives an allotment of one chest of 1-25 cwt. of Malwa opium annually, for which it pays duty at the reduced rate of Rs. 280. This is refunded, with a view to securing the co-operation of the State officials in the suppression of smuggling. The import of opium from Loharu into British territory is prohibited.

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