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Punjab.

Date:: 1908

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Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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history, 17-36; archiaeology, 36-39; population, 39-5 7» 152, 153; culture, 57-68, 154 ; rents, wages, and juices, 68-71, 155; material condition of people, 71, 72 ; forests, 72-75 ; mines and minerals, 75-78 ; arts and manufactures, 78-85; trade, 85-88, ^57 5 communications, 88-93; famine, 93-97 ; administration, 97- 102; law and justice, 102-105, 15S; finance, 105-109, 159, 160; land revenue, 109-115, 159; miscellaneous revenue, 115-122, 159; local and municipal government, 122-126, 161, 162; public works, 126-129; army, 129-131; police and jails, 131-133, 163, 164; education, 133-144, 165; publications, 144; medical, 144- 147, 166; surveys, 147-149; biblio- graphy, 149-150; statistical tables (xi) of Temperature, 151, Rainfall, 151, Population, 152, 153, Agricul- ture, 154, 155, Trade, 156, 157, Justice, 158, Revenue, 159, 161, 162, Expenditure, 160, 161, 162, Police, 163, 164, Education, 165, Medical Institutions, 166; Mountains, rivers, canals, and historic areas, 267-226; particular accounts of Divisions, Dis- tricts, and subdivisions, i. 227-455, ii. 1-272; Native States, 273-409. -piir, Hindu place-ending = ‘ town ’ or ‘place,’ i. 57. Q. Quinine, cheap sale of, at post offices, causes of its general failure, i. 147; large sale in rice-swamps of Kangra, 147. R. Raghubir Singh, enlightened and loyal Raja of jTnd, ii. 314, 315; honorary title of Raja-i-Rajgan conferred on and his heirs, 315. Rahon (Raghupur of Hindu scholars), town in Jullundur District, i. 424 ; before breakfast called Zanana Shahr, ‘woman town,’ 424. Raikot (or Kaekot), town in Ludhiana District, i. 437; palaces of the Rais still standing, 437. Railways, the Province well provided with, i. 88, 91 ; to its natural poit, Karachi, 88, 89; to Doabs, 89 ; branches of Great Indian Peninsula Railway and of North-Western State Railway, 89, 90 ; mileage of broad, metre, and narrow gauges, 90; convey almost all exports and imports, 87 ; commercial and strategical, their value and cost, 90; their levelling effects, economical and moral, 90, 91. See under Means of 43 7 Rainfall, i. 14-16, 57 ; ‘Christmas rains’ of north-east monsoon, 14 ; only 52 per cent, of cultivated area dependent on, 65; the prevalence of malaria in rainy years, 410 ; table of Rainfall in Punjab, i. 151. See also article in each District. Raiwind (or Raewind), junction on North- Western Railway in Lahore District, ii. 41. Rajanpur, subdivision and taksll of Dera Ghazi Khan District, ii. 267. Rajanpur town, owes its present impor- tance to destruction (1862) of Mithan- kot, 270, 271. Rajpura, tahsil of Patiala State, ii. 300. Rajputs, generally Muhammadans, their number, distribution, and high social position, i. 48; degenerate in Hissar, 233; Gaurwas of Gui gaon have adopted widow remarriage, 267; Katoch and others of Kangra, 361 ; in Jullundur and Ludhiana despise work, 414, 428; in Lahore District as elsewhere poor farmers and in debt, ii. 20. See tinder Castes and Occupations in each District. Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru, his grant of site of Amritsar from Akbar, i. 29, ii. 43, 44 ; considerable pensions of his sacred descendants, i. 396. Ramnagar, town in GujranwMa District, with a decaying trade, ii. 105 ; first en- counter of Lord Gough with Sikhs in second War, 105, 113. Ram pur, capital of Bashahr State and residence of Raja, ii. 373, 374. Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh kingdom ot Punjab, i. 31 ; his agreement (1809) with British Government not to cross the Sutlej, 31, 221, 322 ; his system of revenue, 105, 106, 115, 116 ; prosperity of country under, 106. Ranjit Singh, local references to: met Lord Wm. Bentinck at Rupar, i. 336, took Amritsar, ii. 44, 45, held Attock and Rawalpindi, 162, conquered part of Dera Ghazi Khan, 259, seized P'aridkot which he had to surrender, 402, confiscated possessions of rival Ramgarhia confederacy at Gurdaspur, 60; conquered rival Bhangi confederacy, 44, colonized Gujranwala, 92, his birth- place and partly his last resting-place, 103; conquered Gujrat, 112, Hoshiar- pur, i. 395, Jullundur Doab, 412, Jhelum, ii. 144, Jhang, 207, 298, Kangra, i. 358, exacted tribute from Raja of Kulu, 379, 380 ; was granted Lahore, henceforth his capital, ii. 36, his restorations and depredations there, 35, 36, his mausoleum, 37 ; conquered Ludhiana, i. 426, his attack (1809) on Maler Kotla State led to treaty and

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