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CHENAB (the Greek Acesines)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 77 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHENAB (the See also:Greek Acesines) , one of the " Five See also:rivers " of the See also:Punjab, See also:India. It rises in the snowy Himalayan ranges of See also:Kashmir, enters See also:British territory in the See also:Sialkot See also:district, and flows through the plains of the Punjab, forming the boundary between the Rechna and the Jech Doabs. Finally it joins the See also:Jhelum at Trimmu. The CHENAB See also:COLONY, resulting from the See also:great success of the Chenab See also:Canal in irrigating the See also:desert of the See also:Bar, was formed out of the three adjacent districts of See also:Gujranwala, See also:Jhang, and See also:Montgomery in 1892, and contained in 1901 a See also:population of 791,861. It lies in the Rechna See also:Doab between the Chenab and See also:Ravi rivers in the See also:north-See also:east of the Jhang district, and is designed to include an irrigated See also:area of 22 million acres. The Chenab Canal (opened 1887) is the largest and most profitable perennial canal in India. The See also:principal See also:town is See also:Lyallpur, called after See also:Sir J. Broadwood See also:Lyall, See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of the Punjab 1887-1892, which gives its name to a district created in 1904.

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