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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 952 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HARIANA , a See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in the See also:

PUNJAB

Punjab, See also:

India, once the seat of a flourishing See also:

HINDU

Hindu See also:

CIVILIZATION

civilization. It consists of a level upland See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, interspersed with patches of sandy See also:

SOIL

soil, and largely overgrown with brushwood. The Western See also:

JUMNA, or JAMUNA

Jumna See also:

canal irrigates the See also:

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields of a large number of its villages. Since the 14th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century See also:

HISSAR

Hissar has been the See also:

LOCAL

local See also:

capital. During the troubled See also:

period which followed on the decline of the See also:

MOGUL, MOCHAL, or MIGHAL

Mogul See also:

EMPIRE

empire, Hariana formed the battlefield where the See also:

MAHRATTAS

Mahrattas, Bhattis and Sikhs met to See also:

settle their territorial quarrels. The whole country was devastated by the See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine of 1783. In 1797—1798 Hariana was overrun by the famous Irish adventurer See also:

George See also:

Thomas, who established his capital at See also:

HANSI

Hansi; in 18or he was dispossessed by Sindhia's See also:

French See also:

general See also:

Perron; in 1803 Hariana passed under See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

RULE

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