Gazetteer Of The Gujrat District 1883-84

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1PREFACE.

2Tue period fixed by the Punjab Government for the compilation

3of the Gazetteer of the Province being limited to twelve months, the

4Editor has not been able to prepare any original matter for the present

5work; and his duties have been confined to throwing the already

6existing material into shape, supplementing it as far as possible by

7contributions obtained from district officers, passing the draft through the

8press, circulating it for revision, altering it in accordance with the correc-

9tions and suggestions of revising officers, and printing and issuing the

10final edition.

11The material available in print for the Gazetteer of this district

12consisted of the Settlement Reports, and a draft Gazetteer compiled

13between 1870 and 1874 by Mr. F. Cunningham, Barrister-at-Law,

14Notes on certain points hav€ been supplied by district officers ; while

15the report on the Census of 1881 has been utilised. Of the present

16volume, Section A of Cap. V (General Administration), and the whole

17of Cap. VI (Towns), have béen for the most part supplied by the

18Deputy Commissioner ; and Section A of Cap. III (Statistics of Popula-

19tion) has been taken from the Census Report. But with thesé exceps

20tions, the great mass of the text has been taken almost, if not quite

21verbally, from Mr. Cunninghams compilation already referred to, which

22again was almost wholly based upon Colonel Waterfield’s Settlement

23Report of the district.

24The report in question was written in 1868, and, modelled on the

25meagre lines of the older settlement reports, affords somewhat inade-

26quate material for an account of the district. No better or fuller

27material, however, was either available or procurable within the time

28allowed. But when the district again comes under settlement, a second

29and more complete edition of this Gazetteer will be prepared ; and

30meanwhile the present edition will serve the useful purpose of collecting

31and publishing in a systematic form, information which had before been

32scattered, and in part unpublished.

33The draft edition of this Gazetteer has been revised by Colonels

34Waterfield and Parsons and Mr. Perkins. The Deputy Commissioner

35is responsible for the spelling of vernacular names, which has been fixed

36throughout by him in accordance with the prescribed system of trans:

37literation.

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