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HISSAR , a See also:town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Delhi See also:division of the See also:Punjab. The town is situated on the See also:Rajputana railway and the Western See also:Jumna See also:canal, 102 M. W.N.W. of Delhi. Pop. (1901) 17,647. It was founded in 1356 by the See also:emperor Feroz Shah, who constructed the canal to See also:supply it with See also:water; but this See also:fell into decay during the 18th See also:century, owing to the See also:constant inroads of marauders. Hissar was almost completely depopulated during the See also:famine of 1783, but was afterwards occupied by the famous Irish adventurer See also:George See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, who built a fort and collected inhabitants. It is now chiefly known for its See also:cattle and See also:horse fairs, and has a See also:cotton factory.
The DISTRICT comprises an See also:area of 5217 sq. m. It forms the western border district of the See also:great See also:Bikanir See also:desert, and consists for the most See also:part of sandy plains dotted with See also:shrub and brushwood, and broken by undulations towards the See also:south, which rise into hills of See also:rock like islands out of a See also:sea of See also:sand. The Ghaggar is its only See also:river, whose supply is uncertain, depending much on the fall of See also:rain in the See also:lower Himalayas; its overflow in times of heavy rain is caught by jhils, which dry up in the hot See also:season. The Western Jumna canal crosses the district from See also:east to See also:west, irrigating many villages. The See also:soil is in places hard and clayey, and difficult to till; but when sufficiently irrigated it is highly productive. Old mosques and other buildings exist in parts of the district. Hissar produces a breed of large See also:milk-See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white oxen, which are in great See also:request for the carriages of natives. The district has always been subject to famine. The first calamity of this See also:kind of which there is See also:authentic See also:record was in 1783; and Hissar has suffered severely in more See also:recent famines. Its See also:population in 1901 was 781,717, showing practically no increase in the See also:decade, whereas in the previous decade there had been an increase of 150/, The See also:climate is very dry, hot See also:westerly winds blowing from the See also:middle of See also:March till See also:July. Cotton See also:weaving, ginning and pressing are carried on. The district is served by the Rajputana-See also:Malwa, the See also:Southern Punjab and the See also:Jodhpur-Bikanir See also:railways. The See also:chief trading centres are See also:Bhiwani, See also:Hansi, Hissar and See also:Sirsa.
Before the See also:Mahommedan See also:conquest, the semi-desert See also:tract of which Hissar district now forms part was the See also:retreat of Chauhan Rajputs. Towards the end of the 18th century the` Bhattis of See also:Bhattiana gained ascendancy after bloody struggles. To See also:complete the ruin brought on by these conflicts, nature See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent her aid in the great famine of 1783. Hissar passed nominally to the British in 1803, but they could not enforce See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order till rho. See also:Early in the See also:mutiny of 1857 Hissar was wholly lost for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to British See also:rule, and all Europeans were either murdered or compelled to See also:fly. The Bhattis See also:rose under their hereditary chiefs, and the See also:majority of the Mahommedan population followed their example. Before Delhi had been recovered, the rebels were utterly routed.
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