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$43^ Pilgrimages, a favourite distraction, i. 51, 56. Find Dadan Khan, tahsil of Jhelum District, ii. 152. Find Dadan Khan town, once a salt ddpot, ii. 157, boat-building and other industries, 158, Pindi Bhattian, village in Gujranwala District, ii. T04, 105. Pindi Gheb, subdivision of Attock Dis- trict, ii. 182, Pindi Gheb tahsil, ii. 182. Pindi Gheb town, ii. 186. Pinjaur, nizdmat of Patiala State, ii. 299. Pinjaur tahsil, ii. 300. Pinjaur, village with sacred tank, ruins, and fragments of Sanskrit inscription, 308. Plague, local outbreak of in 1897 im- ported from Hardwar, i. 43, 394; its extension since 1900 to the present, 43 ; huge mortality of 15 per thousand in 1905, 44; since 1901 compulsory and unpopular methods of inhibition abandoned, 44 ; failure of inoculation, 44; makes women scarce and valu- able, 104; plague riots (1901) at Sankhatra, ii. 87, and Garhshankar, i. 394; death by tetanus of 19 villagers in Gujrat District (1902) after inocula- tion against plague, iii. Plains, the, i. 2 ; scenery, 4; geology, 4, 5; botany, 10, ii ; fauna, 12; cli- mate, 14. Police : history of, i. 131; present organi- zation under Inspector-General, 131 ; armament and training, 131, 132 ; . military police, 131 ; rural, municipal, cantonment, ferry, and railway police, 132 ; criminal identification, 132 ; pro- portion of police to area and popula- tion, 132; criminal tribes and punitive posts, 132; statistics of personnel of police of all kinds, 163, and of cogniz- able crime, 163. See underYo\\z& and Jails in each District. Political Agent for Phulkian States and Bahawalpur, resides at Patiala, ii. 292 ; his functions, 292. Polyandry, avowed, confined to the hills in the Tibetan form of a brotherhood with one wife, i. 46, not unknown elsewhere, 46; succession through mothers an exception, 46 ; in Kana- war, ii. 373. Polygamy, uncommon and a luxury, i. 46. Population, general view of, i. 39-57 ; number of, i. 39; density per square mile ranging between 641 and 40, 39, 40; of towns and villages, 40; growth of 17 per cent, since 1881, 40; a table of the distribution of population, with numbers, area, sex, density, &c., of each District, 152, 153; tendency of Punjabis to emigrate for military and other service, 40; mean age of, 25 years, low for Europe, high for India, 41; birth and death rates, mean and seasonal, with a table, 42 ; vital statis- tics, anomalous system of compilation of, 42; the principal causes of death, 43, 44; infant mortality, 44; statistics of sex, 44, 45, of civil condition, 45, 46 ; marriage customs, 45, 46 ; religion and caste, 48-53 ; social habits, dress, food, amusements, and games, 53- 57. See under People in each District and State. Porus, king in the Chaj Doab, and Alex- ander, i. 17, 18, ii. Ill, 143. Post office service. District and Imperial organization of, i. 92, 93; a table of its transactions, 93; expenditure on District post, 93 ; sale of quinine by, ^47- Post office service in Native States, Chamba, ii. 406, 407 ; Jlnd, 329; Nabha, 331 ; Patiala, 292. Potatoes, increasing cultivation of Ghe hillman’s sugar-cane,’ i. 62. See under Principal Crops in each District and State. Pottery, rough unglazed, of village potter, i. 81; manufacture and large trade of glazed at Multan, i. 81 ; khdsi or in- laid pottery (a lost art) in ancient buildings at Lahore, ii. 34. Prices, of cattle, i. 64 ; of wells, 68; rents, 69; of agricultural staples, 71 and Table V, p. 155 ; compared with wages, 71 ; of salt, 118, ii. 141. Prinsep, H-. T., History of the Punjab, i. 28; quoted on the legend of Raja Rasalu at Sialkot, ii. 88. Prinsep, J., first deciphered Pali inscrip- tion on Asoka’s pillar at Delhi, i. 293. Printing and books, i. 146. Prithwi Raj, last Hindu ruler of Delhi, defeated, and was defeated (1192) by Muhammad of Ghor at Tirawari, i. 292, 318 ; remains of his city wall, 292. Provincial and Imperial Governments, financial relations or settlements be- tween, i. 106-109, 159; administrative relations, 98. Public Works Department, its two branches of (i) Irrigation, i. 126, 127; (2) Buildings and Roads, 127- 129. See also under Native States. Pundri, town in Karnal District, i. 318. Punjab (Panjdb, ‘five rivers’), a non- Regulation Province under a Lieu- tenant-Governor, general view of, i. 1-166; physical aspects, 1-17, 151;$

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