Gazetteer Of The Kangra District Vol I

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1jKaagra District 1

2CHAP. II.' — HISTORY.

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4_ „ onKhrv nlundering Gurch&ras the gates of a castle

5the approach of two ,‘JJL t hJn<* is humbly placed at the disposal of

6fly 01 U and the best £ ?he diatricti* 182&, He mentions

7the intruders- , lina afc Baijnath for 36 pahka sers per rupee ;

8that fine rice was then s li o bad been a poor harvest.

9coarse rice at 48 ; *hea < J n head. These prices are little

10Cattle fetched from '<» “ , ire vniled during the last twenty years,

11more tliiin Uf ttof t io Marct 1846 in the oc.np.timj of

12The first Sikh *«“ - Br j t i s h Government of the Jalandhar

13Lahore and the cession to tn g and the Ravi. The occupa-

14Doib and the hills hetw« waS not entirely unopposed Notwuh-

15tion of this district, « ^ British arms and in despite of the treaty

16standing the successe alK lant a t Kangra, relying on the time-

17dictated at Lahoie, ■ - refused to surrender. The garrison at

18honoured prestige ot u , The British Resident came up in

19Kotla also followed hi. . ^ niinistel . at Lahore, exercised both

20haste, and Ihwan ' c not until after a delay ol two mont.is

21supplication and menace. ^ tfae fort> did the resolution of

22when a British bngaoe and j ie then agreed to evacuate, on

23the Sikh govern^ g honourable passage for himself and his men.

24condition ot a tie < a native infantry regiment was sent

25After the surrender o of eigbty men, under a European

26to garrison it, an_ 1 . a fnll corps of the line w’as also station-

27officer, was poste “ ‘ ‘ an ,i orders were received to raise a local

28ed at the Fort of Nurpur »» on of the hiUs . For civil manage-

29regiment from the » ®|" ‘ 7 t * g between the Satlaj and R&vi (except-

30ment, the whole ° , le f ) was constituted a separate district, of winch

31ing the Ja f" a lJ a Sstant Commissioner, was placed m charge.

32Lieutenant Lake, A 1048, the hills were supposed to be suffi-

33At the be f permit of a reduction of the military force,

34ciently peaceable to P' . f ££ ngra was removed altogether,

35The line regiment “ n J^ Md and "disciplined, was directed to

36and the lull corps, then garr i son at Nurpur was also re-

37receive charge ot the to . hed from t h e head-quarters of the

38duced to three companie, boweTer> ^ Apr fl of the same year,

39regiment at Hajipu t • ’ ollt) an d the second Sikh war began,

40the Multan msunection le^ ordered immediately from the 28th

41three companies ot tl1 ® t garrison the fort of Kangra, and the

42Regiment at their cantonment in the valley. As the

43hill regiment weufc bac V : lain8 emissaries from the leaders of the

44insurrection spread m P inciting the hill chiefs to rise

45rebellion were sent into ^ promising them restoration to

46against the British Gove ^ ^ Tebe n ioa should prove successful,

47their hereditary km 0 0 f the Government towards them, the

48Disappointed at the ^ ^ gikh overtures were favour-

49hill Rajas were all dj ?° ea of ass ; s tance were exchanged. At the

50ably received, and p a Pathania Rajput, and son of the

51end of August 1 84 b,, turn collected a band of adventurers

52minister of the ex- 4h { Jammu, suddenly crossed the Ravi,

53from the neighbouring M fort of Shahpur. That night

54and threw himself into deputation from the neighbourhood, and

55^roclabned by^eS of dmm that the English rule had ceased, that

56Chapter XL

57History*

58Sikh wars, and

59' establishment -of

60British Buie,