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Punjab.

Date:: 1908

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Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Sultanpur Town.—Town in the Sultanpur fahsA, Kapiir- thala State, Punjab, situated in 31° 13' N. and 75° 12' E., 16 miles south of Kapurthala town. Population (1901), 9,004. Founded in the eleventh century by one Sultan Khan Lodi, said to have been a general of Mahmud of Ghazni, it lay on the great highway from Lahore to Delhi, and was a famous place in the Jullundur Doab. It contains a sarai built by Jahangir, and two bridges, one attributed to Jahangir and one to Aurangzeb. Aurangzeb and his brother, Dara Shikoh, were brought up here. It was burnt in 1739 by Nadir Shah, and is only now regaining its prosperity, while its trade in grain and cloth is increasing. It has a middle school and a dis- pensary. Mandi State.— Native State in the Punjab, under the Boun- political control of the Commissioner, lullundur Division, _con ^ ^ figuration, lying between 31 23' and ‘32° 4'N. and 76° 40'and 77° 22' E., and hill in the upper reaches of the Beas. It is bordered on the north by Chhota Bangahal; on the east by the Nargu range, which divides it from the Kulu valley, and by the Beas, Tirthan, and Bisna streams. On the south it adjoins Suket, and on the west Kangra District. It is 54 miles long and 33 broad, with an area of 1,200 square miles of mountainous country. The Beas enters at the middle of its eastern border, and leaves it near the north-west corner, thus dividing it into two parts, of which the northern is the smaller. This is trisected by two parallel ranges, of which the higher and eastern, the Ghoghar-kl-Dhar, is continued south of the Beas and extends into the south-west of the State. The south- eastern corner, the Mandi Saraj, or ‘ highland,’ is formed by the western end of the Jalaurl range. The State lies partly on rocks belonging to the central Geology. Himalayan zone, of unknown age, and partly on Tertiary shales and sandstones. The rocks of the central zone consist of slates, conglomerates, and limestones, which have been referred to the infra-Blaini and Blaini and Krol groups of the Simla area. The sandstones and shales of the sub-HimMayan zone belong to the Sirmtir series, of Lower Tertiary age, and to the Siwalik series (Upper Tertiary). The most important mineral is rock-salt, which appears to be connected with the Tertiary beds h Wild flowers, such as the anemone, dog-violet, and pirn- Flora and pernel, grow abundantly in the hills in March and April. The ' Medlicott, ‘The Sub-Himalayan Range between the Ganges and Ravi,’ Memoirs, Geological Survey of India, vol. iii, pt. ii.

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