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Encyclopedia Britannica



RAWALPINDI

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 928 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RAWALPINDI , a town of British India, which gives its name to a
district
  and a division in the Punjab. The town is situated on the north bank of the little river Leh, 1726 ft. above the sea, i if m. E. by S. of Peshawar, and 1443 M. N.W. of Calcutta. Pop. (1901) 87,688. It is chiefly notable as the largest military station in India, and the key to the British
system
  of defence upon the North-West Frontier. Railways radiate to Peshawar, Kohat, and the Malakand Pass, and a road runs to the Abbotabad frontier. It is also the starting-point of the cart-road to the hill-station of Murree and of the route into Kashmir. It is protected by a strong chain of forts, connected by the Circular Road. It is the headquarters of the second division of the northern army with a strong force of all arms, and contains an arsenal. Besides the locomotive works of the North-Western railway, there are gas-works, a tent factory, an iron foundry, and a brewery. An annual horse
fair
  is held in April.
The
DISTRICT
  OF RAWALPINDI has an area of 2010 sq. m., Attock having been separated from it and formed into a
separate
  district in 1904. It is situated on the southern slopes of the north-western extremities of the Himalayas, including large
mountain
  tracts with
rich
  valleys traversed by
mountain
  torrents. It contains the Murree hills with the sanatorium of that name, the
chief
  hill-station in the Punjab. The Indus and the Jhelum are the
chief
  rivers, and the climate is noted for its healthiness. The
principal
  crops are wheat, barley, maize, millets. and pulses. The district is traversed by the main line of the North-Western railway, crossing the Indus at Attock, and also by a branch towards the Indus at Kushalgarh. The population in 1901 was 558,699, showing an increase of 4.7 % in the decade.
The DIVISION OF RAWALPINDI lies in the north-west of the Punjab. It consists of the five districts of Gujrat, Attock, Shahpur, Jhelum, and Rawalpindi. The
total
  area is 15,736 sq. m. and the population in 190I was 2,799, 360.


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