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Encyclopedia Britannica



KANGRA

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 653 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KANGRA , a town and
district
  of British India, in the Jullundur division of the Punjab. The town, sometimes called Nagarkot, is situated 2409 ft. above the sea. Pop. (190t), 4746. The Katoch.rajas had a stronghold here, with a fort and rich temples. Mahmud of Ghazni took the fort in 1009 and from one of the temples carried off a vast treasure. In 136o Kangra was again plundered, by Feroz Shah. The temple of Devi Bajreshri was one of the oldest and wealthiest in northern India. It was destroyed, together with the fort and the town, by an earthquake on the 4th of April 1905, when 1339 lives were lost in this place alone, and about 20,000 elsewhere. In 1855 the headquarters of the
district
  were removed to the sanitarium of
Dharmsala
 .
The district of Kangra extends from the Jullundur Doab far into the southern ranges of the Himalaya. Besides some Rajput states, annexed after the
Sikh
  wars, it includes Lahul, Spiti and Kulu, which are essentially Tibetan. The
Beas
  is the only important river. Area, 9978 sq. m., of which Kangra proper has only 2725. Pop. (r9o1), 768,124;
average
  density 77 persons per sq. M., but with only one person per sq. m. in Spiti.. Tea
cultivation was introduced into Kangra about r85o. The Palampur
fair
 , established by government with a view to fostering commerce with central
Asia
 , attracts a small concourse of Yarkandi merchants. The Lahulis carry on an enterprising trade with Ladakh and countries beyond the frontier, by means of
pack
  sheep and goats.
Rice
 , tea, potatoes, opium, spices, wool and honey are the
chief
  exports.
See Kangra District Gazetteer (Lahore, 1906).


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