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Punjab.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Loharu Town.—Capital of the Loharu State, Punjab, situated in 28° 24'N. and 75° 52'E., 52 miles south of Hissar. Population (1901), 2,175. The town once contained a mint of the Jaipur State, and derives its name from the Lohars or blacksmiths employed therein. It is a straggling village rather than a town, but contains the residence of the Nawab of Loharu, the State offices, a hospital, a jail, postal and telegraph offices, &c. Dujana State.—Native State in the Punjab, under the political control of the Commissioner of the Delhi Division. The territory comprises three detached areas, lying between 28° 39' and 28° 42^ N. and 76° 37' and 76° 43' E., its main portion being south-west of Rohtak District. The area is 100 square miles, the population (1901) 24,174; and it contains one town, Dujana (population, 5,545), the capital, and 30 vil- lages. It is a level plain interspersed with sandhills and devoid of streams or canals, wells being the only means of irrigation. The founder of the State was a Yusufzai Pathan soldier of fortune in the Peshwa’s service, who eventually obtained em- ployment under Lord Lake, and in 1806 received a grant of the Nahar and Bahu parganas with an extensive tract in Hariana. The latter, however, he was unable to hold, and in 1809 he exchanged it for the small area around Dujana, which lies 24 miles north-east of the Nahar tahsJl. Nawab Hasan All behaved well in the Mutiny of 1857. The present Nawab, Mumtaz All, succeeded in 1882. The State is divided into two tahsi/s, Dujana and Nahar, each forming a police circle. There is also a police post at Bahu in the Nahar tahsll. The chief official under the Nawab is the Diwan, who has a small staff, while a tahsilddr is in charge of Nahar. The import of opium from Nahar into British territory is prohibited. There is an Anglo-vernacular middle school at Dujana, and the State has two medical officers at Dujana and Nahar. The land revenue, as assessed in 1889, amounts to Rs. 77,170. Dujana Town.—Capital of the Dujana State, Punjab, situated in 28° 41' N. and 76° 38' E., 37 miles west of Delhi. Population (1901), 5,545. Founded by a saint, Durjan Shah, from whom it derives its name, it afterwards became the residence of a branch of the Yusufzai Pathans of Jhajjar, from whom Abdus Samand Khan, the first Nawab of Dujana, was descended. Pataudi State.—Native State in the Punjab, under the political control of the Commissioner of the Delhi Division, lying between 28° 14'and 28° 22'N. and 76° 42'and 76° 52' E.,
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