Punjab State Gazetteers, volume XIII. Part B. Patiala State. Statistical Tables, 1936

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1PREFACE,

2THIS volume jis issued under the orders contained in the

3Punjab Government, Revenue Department, letter No. 2279-R.,

4dated the 14th June, 1928. Thelines on which the revision of

5State Gazetteers is to be undertaken are laid down in the Govern-

6ment of India, Horne Department, letter No. 3375, dated ist

7October, 1902, and are as follows :—

8“The chief difficulty which stands in the way of the

9periodical revision of the existing Gazetteers, and that reason

10which has caused so large a portion of their contents to become

11obsolete, is that they contain a mixture of permanent matter, such

12as that relating to the history, physical characteristics, religion,

13ethnography, etc., of the district; of matter which changes

14gradually but, as a rule, slowly, such as that dealing with the

15agricultural and economic conditions ; and of ephemeral matter,

16mainly statistical, which soon becomes out of date, For this

17reason, when a new District Gazetteer fg issued it should consist of

18two volames, A and B, compiled an the following lines: ~

19(1) In the first edition all descriptive matter should go

20into the A volume; but the volume should contain

21only such general figures (incorporated in the

22letter-press, ag are necessary to give point to remarks

23in the text........... All detailed statistics should be

24relegated to the Bvolume, which would at first

25consist only of these and of such notes as may be

26necessary to elucidate them.

27**(2) On the occasion of the next revision the statistics in

28the B volume should be re-compiled, ani this volame

29should be expanded by adding to it any matter that

30might be required to correct or supplement the A

31volume. Thusif there had been a famine since A

32was published, if a new railway had bean opened,

33and 80 forth, information on these points would

34appear io B as supplementary to the appropriate

35chapters in A.

36“ (3) This process would go on till the time had come for re-

37vising the A volume. Then all the supplementary

38text matter should be incorporated in the new A

39volume, and B would revert to its original form as

40a statistical appendix with explanatory notes.