Punjab.

Date:: 1908

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Jhajjar town, its dyeing industry and textile manufactures, i. 261, 262 ; its tank and palaces, 250, 251. Jhang, District in the Multan Division, ii. 205-218 ; formerly a desert Bar now transformed by the Chenab Canal into a most fertile and prosperous tract, 206 ; once healthy because dry, but the canal has brought wet and malaria, 207 ; its history since Greek times and under the Sials, 207, 208 ; increase of its revenv;e fivefold since 1890, 214 ; the new (1904) Lyallpur District carved out of it, 219 ; bibliography, 215. Jhang tahsll, ii. 215, 216. Jhang-Maghiana, two towns forming one municipality, ii. 217, 218; head- quarters of District, in a well-wooded and watered neighbourhood, 218. Jhelum of Alexander), the most westerly of the ‘ five rivers,’ i. 193-195 ; its course of 450 miles from Kashmir to its confluence with the Chenab, 193, 194 ; its many tribu- taries, 193 ; its towns, bridges, and Doabs, 194; controversy about place of passage by Alexander, ii. 143. Jhelum, District in Rawalpindi Division, ii. 141-159; its good climate, 143 ; its traditions of the Pandavas, 143, 154; and association with Alexander, 143, 153 ; religious and military antiquities, 144, 145 ; from its position a land of fortresses and hereditary warriors, 145 ; horses and cattle, 147 ; railways, 148, 149; coal and salt, 148, 155-157. Jhelum tahsil, ii. 151. Jhelum, town and railway station on right bank of river, ii. 153; cantonment, ^53) ^54 I progress under British rule, 153, timber trade and boat-build- ing, 148, 153; doubtfully identified with Alexander’s Bucephala, 153. Jhelum (irrigation) Canal, Lower, not yet completed, i. 210-212, ii. 125, 127; formation of a great horse-breed- ing colony, i. 211, ii. 136, 137. Jhelum Colony, of 750 square miles, in Shahpur District, ii. 137, settled on same conditions as Chenab Colony (q. V.), but with special reference to horse-breeding, 136, 137. Jlnd State, one of the Phulkian States, ii. 311-325; its three distinct and separate tracts, 311, each healthy or unhealthy as it is dry or damp, 312 ; history since 1763, 312-315; cattle and camels, 317; irrigation, 317, 318; railways and roads, 318, 319; famine, 319; land revenue, 320; feudatories, 320; excise and opium, 321 ; currency, 321; municipalities, 321; army, 321, 322; surveys, 322 ; bibliography, 323. Jlnd nizdmat, ii. 323. Jind tahsll, ii. 323. Jlnd town, once the capital, ii. 324; its traditional foundation by the Pandavas, 324, their temple to Jainti Devi, the ‘ goddess of victory,’ whence the name, 324; tombs, temples, and places of pil- grimage, 325. Jowdr or great millet, area and yield, i. 60; prices, 155 ; for imports and exports see tmder Grains and pulses, 156. See under Principal Crops in each District. Jubbal, one of the Simla Plill States, with feudatories, ii. 370. Judges, of Chief Court, i. 103, Divisional and Sessions, 103, Subordinate Judges, 103, District Judge, 99, 103. JuHundur, very ancient and extensive monarchy of Rajput (Katoch) kings, between Sutlej and Beas, i. 355, 379, 394, 411, 421 ; its long struggles and final submission to Muhammadan su- premacy, 355-357; its survival in Hill States and princes of Kangra and Kulu, 357, 379; their subjection and mild treatment by Akbar, 356, 357 ; resusci- tation of original line at Kangra in Sansar Chand, 357 ; the horrors of the Gurkha invasion, 341, 358, the appeal to Ranjit Singh, 358, subjection of old Kangra State, 358. JuHundur Division, stretching from Tibet to Bikaner desert, i. 351; head-quarters of Commissioner at JuHundur town, 351 ; a general view of its physical aspects, population, and Districts, 351, 352. JuHundur District, occupying southern part of Bist JuHundur Doab, i. 409- 424; its great fertility and generally temperate climate, 410; history, 411, 412 ; the pressure on the soil met by emigration, 415 ; industries and trade, 416, 417; railways and roads, 417; bibliography, 419. JuHundur tahsll, i. 420. JuHundur town, head-quarters of Division and District, i.421, 422; on the railway, 421 ; a cantonment, 422 ; industries and suburbs {basils'), 421, 422. Jumna river, i. 183-186 ; its names in Ptolemy, Pliny, and Arrian, 183; its rise and course of 860 miles, 183, 184, pierces the Siwaliks, 184 ; its tributaries, 184, the canals that drain it, 280; its supply of fresh water, fatal to enteric microbes, 184 ; its loans from the Ganges, 184; its railway bridges, 184; the towms on its b^nks, 185; its volume and drainage area, 185 ; its traffic, 185 ; falls into Ganges below Allahabad, 184.$

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