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Punjab.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from 63,549 in 1891 to 69,837 in 1901. It contains one town, Phagwara (population, 14,108), and 88 villages. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to 2«i lakhs. The tahsil, which lies in the great plain of the Doab, is fertile everywhere. It is divided into three tracts known as Sirwal, ManjkT, and Dhak. The characteristic of the Sirwal is a soft blackish sandy soil, containing moisture, and generally capable of producing sugar-cane and rice without inundation. The Manjkl has a hard red soil, productive of good crops with timely rainfall or sufficient irrigation. The Dhak has a soil of fertile blackish clay. Sultanpur Tahsil. — Tahsil of the Kapurthala State, Punjab, lying between 31° 9' and 31° 23' N. and 75° 3' and 75° 32' E., with an area of 176 square miles. The population increased from 73,023 in 1891 to 75,945 in 1901. It contains one town, Sultanpur (population, 9,004), and 176 villages. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to 2-5 lakhs. The tahsil is the most fertile in the State. The greater portion of it lies in the Beas lowlands, and the rest consists of a sandy plain beyond the reach of the floods. In the main portion the cultivation depends on irrigation from wells. Kapurthala Town.—Capital of the Kapurthala State, Punjab, situated in 31° 23' N. and 75° 25' E., 8 miles east of the Beas, and ii from Jullundur. Population (1901), 18,519. It is said to have been founded in the eleventh century by Rana Kapur of the Rajput ruling family of Jaisalmer, from whom the present Raja of Kapurthala claims descent. In 1780 it v/as wrested by Sardar Jassa Singh from the Muham- madan chieftain who had seized the town and its dependent villages on the break-up of the Mughal empire, and has since been the capital of the State. It contains the RajTs palace and many other handsome edifices. The town is administered as a municipality, the income of which in 1903-4 was Rs. 13,000, chiefly derived from octroi, and the expenditure Rs. 18,000. It possesses the Randhir College, a high school, a girls’ school, and a hospital. Phagwara Town.—Town in the Phagwara tahsil^ Kapur- thala State, Punjab, situated in 31° 14' N. and 75° 47' E., on the North-Western Railway. Population (1901), 14,108. The town is growing rapidly in population and commercial impor- tance, as the exemption of its market from octroi enables it to compete on favourable terms with neighbouring towns in British territory. It is now the largest mart in the Jullundur Doab, and possesses a high school and a dispensary.
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