Gazetteer Of The Shahpur District 1897

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1PREFACE.

2The basis of this revised edition of the Gazetteer of the Shah.*

3pur District is the Settlement Report written in 1866 by Captain

4Davies (now Sir W. 6. Davies, k.c.s.l). The historical portions of that

5j’eport have boon repeated almost verbatim, but the remainder has

6Iteen almost entirely re-wu'itten, amplified and brought up to date.

7Tho figures regarding population arc mainly taken from the statistics of

8the census of 1891 ; those regarding crops and assessments are mostly

9those of the year 189:J, wdiich were the last available when the revision

10of settlement was completed ; and the others have been brought up to

11the year 1 896 or 1890. The general information' about the district

12and its people embodied in this volume was collected by me from

13personal observation, while I held charge of the district as Deputy Com*

14raissioner and carried out the revision of settlement between the years

151836 and 189 1, or compiled from various sources too numerous to

16detaiL

17I Imve to acknowledge the valuable assistance given me in

18C'lmpiling this Gazetteer by Munslii Malibiib Alam, late Settlement

19Clerk of Sliahpur, whose knowledge of the language and the people

20hits been of great use to me.

21J. WILSON,

22Ihfnhj Conmir, and Settlewent Oolleetor,

232ind Jam, 1897.