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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHAHPUR

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 770 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SHAHPUR , a town and
district
  of British India, in
Rawalpindi
  division of the Punjab. The town is near the left bank of the river Jhelum. Pop. (1901) 9386. The
district
  of Shahpur has an area of 4840 sq. m. Its most important
physical
  subdivisions are the Salt range in the north, the valleys of the Chenab and Jhelum, and the plains between those rivers and between the Jhelum and the Salt range. The characteristics of these two plains are widely different: the desert portion of the southern plain is termed the bar; the corresponding
tract
  north of the Jhelum is known as the thal. The climate of the plains is hot and dry, but in the Salt range it is much cooler; the annual rainfall averages about 15 in. Tigers, leopards and wolves are found in the Salt range, while small game and antelope abound among the thick jungle of the bar. In 19o1 the
population
  was 524,259, showing an increase of 6% in the decade. The
principal
  crops are wheat, millets, pulses and
cotton
 . Irrigation is effected from government canals, and also from wells. The largest town and
chief
  commercial centre is Bhera. The district is traversed by two branches of the North-Western railway.
Shahpur passed into the hands of the English along with the rest of the Punjab in 1849. During the Mutiny of 1857 the district remained tranquil, and though the villages of the bar gave cause for alarm no outbreak of sepoys occurred. Since annexation the limits and constitution of the district have undergone many changes.


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