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DERA GHAZI KHAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 64 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GHAZI See also:KHAN , a See also:town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Punjab. In 1901 the town had a See also:population of 21,700. There are several handsome mosques in the native See also:quarter. It commands the See also:direct approaches to the Baluch See also:highlands by Sakki Sarwar and Fort See also:Monro. For many years past both the town and See also:cantonment have been threatened by the erosion of the See also:river See also:Indus. The town was founded at the See also:close of the 15th See also:century and named after Ghazi Khan, son of Haji Khan, a Baluch chieftain, who after holding the See also:country for the Langah sultans of See also:Multan had made himself See also:independent. Together with the two other deras (settlements), Dera See also:Ismail Khan and Dera Fateh Khan, it gave its name to the territorial See also:area locally and historically known as Derajat, which after many vicissitudes came into the See also:possession of the British after the See also:Sikh See also:War, in 1849, and was divided into the two districts of Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail Khan. The DISTRICT OF DERA GHAZI KHAN contains an area of 5306 sq. m. The district is a See also:long narrow See also:strip of country, 198 m. in length, sloping gradually from the hills which See also:form its western boundary to the river Indus on the See also:east. Below the hills the country is high and arid, generally level, but some-times See also:rolling in sandy undulations, and much intersected by See also:hill torrents, 201 in number. With the exceptions of two, these streams dry up after the rains, and their See also:influence is only See also:felt for a few See also:miles below the hills. The eastern portion of the district is at a level sufficiently See also:low to benefit by the floods of the Indus.

A barren See also:

tract intervenes between these zones, and is beyond the reach of the hill streams on the one See also:hand and of the Indus on the other. Although liable to See also:great extremes of temperature, and to a very scanty rainfall, the district is not unhealthy. The population in 1901 was 471,149, the great See also:majority being Baluch Mahommedans. The See also:principal exports are See also:wheat and See also:indigo. The only manufactures are for domestic use. There is no railway in the district, and only 29 M. of metalled road. The Indus, which is nowhere bridged within the district, is navigable by native boats. The See also:geographical boundary between the See also:Pathan and Baluch races in the hills nearly corresponds with the See also:northern limit of the district. The frontier tribes on the Dera Ghazi Khan border include the Kasranis, Bozdars, Khosas, Lagharis, Khetvans, Gurchanis, Mazaris, Mariris and Bugtis. The See also:chief of these are described under their See also:separate names.

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