Gazetteer of the Kangra District- Kangra 1883-84 (Part-1)

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About the Book This Gazetteer consists of the settlement Reports, and a draft. Gazetteer compiled between the years 1870 and 1874 by F. Cunningham. Notes on certain points have been supplied by district officers; while the report on the Census of 1881 has been utilized. Of the present volume, Section A of Chapter V (General Administration), and the whole of Chapter VI (Towns), have been for the most part supplied by the Deputy Commissioner; Section A of Chapter III (Statistics of Population) has been taken from the Census Report; while, here and there, passages have been extracted from Cunningham's compilation already referred to. But, with these exceptions, the great mass of the text has been taken from the Settlement Reports of the district by Messrs. Barnes and Lyell.

The draft edition of this Gazetteer has been revised by Colonels Jenkins and Harcourt, and by Messrs. A. Anderson and L.Dane.

Preface The period fixed by the Punjab Government for the compilation of the Gazetteer of the Province being limited to twelve months, the Editor has not been able to prepare any original matter for the present work; and his duties have been confined to throwing the already existing material into shape, supplementing it as far as possible by contributions obtained from district officers, passing the draft through the press, circulating it for revision, altering it in accordance with the corrections and suggestions of revising officers, and printing and issuing the final edition.

The material available in print for the Gazetteer of this district consisted of the Settlement Reports, and a draft Gazetteer compiled between 1870 and 1874 by Mr. F. Cunningham, Barrister-at-Law. Notes on certain points have been supplied by district officers; while the report on the Census of 1881 has been utilised. Of the present volume, Section A of Chapter V (General Administration), and the whole of Chapter VI (Towns), have been for the most part supplied by the Deputy Commissioner; Section A of Chapter III (Statistics of Population) has been taken from the Census Report; while, here and there, passages have been extracted from Mr. Cunningham's compilation already referred to. But, with these exceptions, the great mass of the text has been taken almost, if not quite verbally, from the Settlement Reports of the district by Messrs. Barnes and Lyell.

The draft edition of this Gazetteer has been revised by Colonels Jenkins and Harcourt, and by Messrs. A. Anderson and L. Dane. The Deputy Commissioner is responsible for the spelling of vernacular names, which has been fixed throughout by him in accordance with the prescribed system of transliteration. The final edition, though compiled by the Editor, has been prepared for and passed through the press by Mr. Stack.

Introduction line between north latitudo tude and 35'. This vast tract, comprising area more than square miles, stretched eastwards from plain country of the Bári and Jalandhar Dokhs, over the Himalayan ranges, and far into Tibet. on the north-east the great Himalayan range which forms the valley Upper Indus, and separates the district from Tibetan region of Rakshu and territories of Chinese empire; the south-east by the hill states Basahir, Mandi, and Bilaspur (Kahlúr); on the south-west district Hushiarpur; and the north-west the Chaki torrent which divides portion the Gurdaspur district, and by the state Chamba. divided into tahsils, of Hamirpur, Delra, Núrpur lis along south western border of the district, where it adjoins plains the Siwaliks, order from east to west, lying, toge the Kangra among tahsil centre tow the outer Himalayas. the district connects known as Bangáhal the three tahsils above manned with the tract that forms the Kúlu tahsil sub-division. This last includes Kúlu which, laying our hither the Panjal mid-Himalayan range belongs India; the cantons Lahaul and Spiti which, situated on the lad waters the Chenab and systems between the mid and western Himalayas, belong rather to Tibet India.

Some leading statistics regarding the district and the several which are in Table the than 10,000 souls, Nurpur with population 5,744 being the largest. adininistrative head-quarters situated sanitarium the outer Himalayas, twelve miles north-east of the town Kangra. An Assistant Commissioner in independent charge of sub-division, head-quarters at Nagger in Kúlu Valley, at 90 miles Kángra. Kángra stands second order ninth population among thirty-two districts province, comprising 8:51 per total 3-88 per cent. population, aud per cent. of the urban population territory.

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