Report On The Administration Of The Punjab And Its Dependencies, For The Year 1872-73

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1Parr IT. ] PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 21

215 000 1 to 20,000, 21 of from 10,000 to 15,000, and 99 of from 5,000 to

310,000. The principal towns are—

4Population. Population.

5Dehli ... ve eee 154,417 Peshawar so .. 08,555

6Amritsar rT ins Lae voo Jalandhar re » 60,067

7. Lahore... aa en Doone Multan... e . 45,602

8The language of the people of all the districts east of the Indus (except

9the Trans-Himalayan pergunnahs of Lahoul and Spiti in the Kangra

10district) is Hindi or Punjabi, the dialect varying in more or less degree

11in almost every district and often in different parts of the same district.

12The language spoken in Lahoul and Spiti is a dialect of Thibetan.

13Trans-Indus, Pushtu is the language of the villagers near the frontier

14in the northern districts, and Bilochi of those on the southern Derajat

15border. Persian is generally spoken by the upper classes in the city

16of Peshawar, and Urdu in the other large cities of the Punjab.

1764. CHANGES IN THE ADMINISTRATION.—The Hon’ble R. H. Davies,

18C.8.1, remained Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab during the year

19under report.

2065. RELATIONS WITH DEPENDENT STATES AND FRONTIER TRIBES.—

21In accordance with the instructions conveyed in the Government of

22India, Home Department, Resolution No. 1674, dated 12th May 1873,

23no reference will be made in this report to the relations of the British

24Government with Afghanist4n or the nations of Central Asia, and in

25the record of events affecting Dependent States and Frontier Tribes all

26mention has been sayetally avoided of affairs or interests which fall

27properly within the special cognizance of the Foreign Department of

28the Government of India.

2966. DEPENDENT StaTes.—The Dependent and Feudatory States

30over which the Government of the Punjab exercises political control

31are 86 in number, v2z. :—

32Jammu and Kashmir, _Basahir. Luharu. Dhami.

33Patiala. Hindur (Nalagarh). Dujana. Kuthar.

34Bahawalpur. Keonthal. Bhagat. Kunhiar.

35Jind. Maler Kotla. Bhégal. Mangal.

36Nabha.. Faridkot. Jubbal. Bija.

37Kapfirthala. Chamba. Kumhérsain. Darkuti.

38Mandi. Suket. Bhajji. Taroch,

39Sarm6r (Néhan). Kalsia. Mailog. Sangri.

40Kahlur (Bilaspur), Pataodi. Balsan. Rotesh.

41A statement showing their estimated population, revenue and mili-

42tary resources will be found in Appendix No. 5, and an account of

43the reigning Chiefs will be found in Appendix No. 6. It may be

44here stated that the total area of the Feudatory States attached to the