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Gazetteer of the Lahore District

· 1894 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

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1Chapter VI, C.

2Minor Towns.

3Sharnkpur.

4$46 CHAP, VIL—TOWNS, MUNICIPALITIES AND CANTONMENTS,

5of the Ravi, and consequently most of the local trade is

6centred here. The population, however, is chiefly agricultural,

7dependent on the produce of the land included within the

8estate. ‘he number of traders paying tax on incomes in ex-

9cess of one thousand rupeesis ten, and the total amount they

10pay as income-tax is Rs. 296. The population was ascertained

11to be 4,595 in 188] and 4,924 in the recent census of 1891. The

12people are nearly all Musulmans, chiefly Arains and Khojas.

13The low rate of increase in population is due to the depressed

14-eondition of the cultivating portion of the community. They

15are heavily embarrassed with debt to the money-lenders.

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