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$43^ Multan, 228, stormed Muzaffargarh and Khangarh, 247, tookShahpur, 128, Sialkot, 77, decorated temple of Tarn Taran, 56, interference in Patiala State, ii. 282, 283, Jind State, 313, Nabha State, 327, Bahawalpur State, 339, 340, Kapurthala State, 381, Mandi, 393; palace of a queen at Shekliupura, 106. Ratesh, fief of Keonthal State, ii. 377. Rathis, the physical and other character- istics of the tribe in Kangra, i. 361 ; in Chamba State, ii. 405. Ravi {Hydraotes of Arrian), one of the ‘five rivers,’ i. 190, 191 ; its course of 450 miles to the Chenab, 190 ; once joined the Beas, 191; its bridges, vary- ing depth, and canals, 190; carried away (1870) the Sikh Tali Sahib shrine at Dera Nanak, 190. Rawain (or Raingarh), petty (7 square miles) State, ruled by a Thakur, feuda- tory to Jubbal State, ii. 371 ; its fort and temples, 371. Rawalpindi Division, ii. 109-187; general statistics and view of, 109. Rawalpindi District, ii. 159-174; generally very healthy, 160; history and anti- quities, 161, 162 ; the Takkas, 161 ; hill forests, 165; severe summary settle- ment, 167; advance in education, 168. Rawalpindi tahsTl, ii. 169. Rawalpindi town, head-quarters of Division and District, ii. 172 ; the most important cantonment in India, with an arsenal, 173; its important and growing trade, railway and other factories, 173 ; a modern town on an ancient site, 172 ; its historical associations, 172. Raya, tahsll of Sialkot District, ii. 85. Razia, the only Muhammadan queen who ruled at Delhi, i. 23, 293. Rechna Doab, i. 225. Recruits from Punjab, first in India for quantity and quality, i. 130; classes recruited and centres, i. 130; recruiting grounds of Jats, Malwa and Manjha, 225, 428. Reformatory, for boy prisoners, i. 133; ‘ Kot ’ for criminal tribes, ii. 83, 84. Registration of documents, officers and statistics of, i. 105. Religions, i. 50-53; indigenous, 50-52; AryaSamaj, 51, 52 ; Christian missions, 52, 53; statistics of numbers of each religion, 53; religious orders, 51 ; sur- vivals of primitive cults, 51; religious architecture, 52; Sikhism, 29-31, ii. 43, 44) of native chiefs, i. loi, 102. See People in each District. Rent paid to landowners, what is over from land revenue and subsistence of cultivators, under native rulers fiil, i. 68, 69; now twice to thrice the value of the assessment, 69; general rise of cash rents, 69 ; legislation regulating raising of rents in special cases and generally, 69; increase of area held by tenants, 70; cash rents in Bawal (Nabha State), ii. 334. See Land Revenue in each District. Representation and election in local government : non-official members of Legislative council, i. 102 ; the Muni- cipal Acts, 124; nominated and elected members of municipal committees, 124, of District boards, 125; nominated members in ‘notified areas,’ 124; the best men prefer nomination to election, 125. See under Municipal and Local administration in each District, and also Self-government. Reptiles, crocodiles and poisonous snakes, i. 13. Revenue: land,i. 109-115; miscellaneous, salt, and excise, 115-12 2 ; tables of Provincial, Municipal, and Board Re- venues, i. 159, 160, 161, 162. See also tinder Land Revenue in each District and State. Revenue Courts, 1. 105. Rewari, tahsll of Gurgaon District, i. 277. Rewari town, a railway junction, one of chief emporiums of Province, with trade in grain and sugar, salt and iron, i. 278, 279; the ruins of Old Rewari, 279- Rice, its area of more than 1,100 square miles, its regions and varieties, i. 60, 154 ; its cultivation in Kangra a cause of malaria, 355. See tinder Principal Crops in each District. River system, the ‘ five rivers,’ forming the Panjnad, i. 2, 3, 195, falling into the Indus at Mithankot, 197, 198; the Jumna, the only one of the seven great rivers that falls into Bay of Bengal, 3, 183-185 ; their shifting channels, passim. See under Hill and River Systems in each District. Rivers, as means of transport, bridges and ferries over, i. 92. Roads, mainly feeders of the railway system, i. 91 ; continuation of grand trunk from Calcutta to Delhi, thence through Lahore and Attock to Pesha- war in North-West Frontier Province, 91 ; chief metalled roads of Province and unmetalled of Districts, 91 ; mile- age and expenditure, 91, 92 ; strategic roads in Dera Ghazi Khan District, 91 ; vehicular traffic on, 92 ; of Hima- layas, 179; of Kangra District, 366, 367. See under Railways and Roads in each District. Rohtak, District in Delhi Division, i.$

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