Gazetteer Amritsar 1892

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1[ Panjab Gazetteer,

242 CHAP. HIL—THE PROPLE

3Chapter 1. B- whom devolve all the homse-hold work, the milking of tho

4naiigioas Lie

5Fairs,

6cattle, the cooking, the picking and spinning of the gotton,

7besides the care of the cliildren.

8The principal fairs are thos bold at the Baiaskhi featival

9in April and at the Dowili in November, both at Amritsar city.

10Thoy are primarily religious faire, but gradually tha meetings

11came to be atilized for the buying and selling of nyriguitural

12stock, and now the fairs aro the best known and most largely

13attended imthe province. Further details will be given ia

14the chapter on agricultural stock and produce. n these

15occasions all the luagés or hospices, originally kept up, round

16the tank ofthe Darbar Séhib, by leading families for the accom-

17modation of their following on the oetnsion of their visits, and all

18the semi-religions abhdras, or vest-houses, in the city are filled

19to overflowing, and ropresentitives of erery race in the Punj

20and beyond its borders may be agen, Special trains for to ne

21commodation of the visitors to the fair are ran, and all the main

22roads leading to Amritsar city are crowded with the éuttle being

23driven in for sale, Each fair laste about ten days and daring

24all that time the cattle are coming and going. izes to tho

25value of about Rs. 2,000 are given for cattle from Governniont

26fonds, nnd abont Re. 500 for horses and mules, Several other

27fairs are celebrated in the district, al] of religions character,

28Two large fairs are held at Tarn Téran, one in March and the

29other, the largest, in Augnat, and throughout the yeur, aa already

30atated, there is a gathering nt tho eame place on tho last day of

31the old moon and first day of the new. Anothor religious far

32ig held at the Ram Virath tank, at Kaler, on the borders of the

33Ajndla and Amritsar tabsile, on the Gojrdnwila road. hia

34is more a Hinda than a Sikh fair, and is largely attended by

35Hindés from the city. Others again are held at tho Béoli Sahib,

36or sacred woll at Goindwal, in September, at the shrincof Guru

37Angad in Khnddr Sahib, (both in Tarn. ‘Tfran) also at Chamba

38Khord in tho same takeil. Tho principal Mahammadan gelees

39ing is at Kotli Shah Halitb, the shrine of 4 saint nesr dis

40in Ajndla, but thors is scarvoly a single Mukammadan shrine to

41which the custodians do not seek toadd importance, by the

42holding of & small local gathoring for their own, or the saints

43Table No. VI shows the numbers in each taheil and in the

44‘wholo district who follow cach religion, as ascertained at the

45census of 189], and Table No.

46XLII gives: similar

47VU, and VIIT and ay ee

48mentary eet ie B, nad F of

49by religions is shown in the margin. ¥

50for towns. Thblea Nec OL, 7

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