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Encyclopedia Britannica



GUJRAT

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 713 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUJRAT , a town and
district
  of British India, in the
Rawalpindi
  division of the Punjab, lying on the south-western border of Kashmir. The town stands about 5 M. from the right bank of the river Chenab, 70 M. N. of Lahore by rail. Pop. (1901) 19,410. It is built upon an ancient site, formerly occupied, according to tradition, by two successive cities, the second of which is supposed to have been destroyed in 1303, the year of a Mongol invasion. More than 200 years later either Sher Shah or Akbar founded the existing town. Though
standing
  in the midst of a Jat neighbourhood, the fort was first garrisoned by Gujars, and took the name of Gujrat. Akbar's fort, largely improved by Gujar Singh, stands in the centre of the town: The neighbouring shrine of the saint Shah Daula serves as a kind of native asylum for lunatics. The town has manufactures of furniture, inlaid
work
  in gold and iron, brass-ware, boots,
cotton
  goods and shawls.
The
DISTRICT
  OT GUJRAT comprises a narrow wedge of sub-Himalayan plain country, possessing few natural advantages. From the basin of the Chenab on the south the general level rises rapidly towards the interior, which, owing to the great 'distance of the water beneath the surface, assumes a dreary and desert aspect. A range of low hills, known as the Pabbi, traverses the northern angle of Gujrat. They are composed of a friable Tertiary sandstone and conglomerate, destitute of vegetation, and presenting a mere barren chaos of naked rock, deeply scored with precipitous ravines. Immediately below the
Pabbi stretches a high
plateau
 , terminating abruptly in a precipitous bluff some 200 ft. in height. At the foot of this
plateau
  is a plain, which forms the actual valley of the Chenab and participates in the irrigation from the river bed.
Numerous relics of antiquity stud the surface of the district. Mounds of ancient construction yield early coins, and bricks are found whose size and type prove them to belong to the pre-historic period. A mound now occupied by the
village
  of Moga or Mong has been identified as the site of Nicaea, the city built by Alexander the Great on the field of his victory over Porus. The Delhi empire established its authority in this district under Bahlol Lodi (1451-1489). A century later it was visited by Akbar, who founded Gujrat as the seat of government. During the decay of the Mogul power, the Ghakkars of
Rawalpindi
  overran this portion of the Punjab and established themselves in Gujrat about 1741. Meanwhile the Sikh power had been asserting itself in the eastern Punjab, and in 1765 the Ghakkar
chief
  was defeated by Sirdar Gujar Singh,
chief
  of the Bhangi confederacy. On his death, his son succeeded him, but after a few months' warfare, in 1798, he submitted himself as vassal to the Maharaja Ranjit Singh. In 1846 Gujrat first came under the supervision of British officials. Two years later the district became the theatre for the important engagements which decided the event of the second Sikh war. After several bloody battles in which the British were unsuccessful, the Sikh power was irretrievably broken at the engagement which took place at Gujrat on the 22nd of February 1849. The Punjab then passed by annexation under British rule.
The district comprises an area of 2051 sq. m. In Igor the population was 750:548, showing a decrease of 1%, compared with an increase of 1o% in the previous decade. The district has a large export trade in wheat and other grains, oil, wool,
cotton
  and hides. The main line and the Sind-
Sagar
  branch of the North-Western railway traverse it.


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