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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 785 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTGOMERY , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Lahore See also:division of the See also:Punjab. The town has a station on the See also:North-Western railway about See also:half-way between Lahore and See also:Multan. Pop. (1901), 6602. It was founded in 1864 on the opening of the railway, and called after See also:Sir See also:Robert Montgomery, then See also:lieutenant-See also:governor. It is situated in a desolate upland, and though not unhealthy is singularly comfortless.. The DISTRICT OF MONTGOMERY lies in the See also:Bari See also:Doab, or See also:tract between the See also:Sutlej and the See also:Ravi, extending also across the latter See also:river. See also:Area, 4771 sq. m.. In the former tract a fringe of cultivated See also:lowland skirts the See also:bank of either river, but the whole interior upland consists of a See also:desert See also:plateau partially overgrown with brushwood and coarse grass, and in places with impenetrable See also:jungle. On the farther See also:side of the Ravi, again, the See also:country at once assumes the same desert aspect. The See also:population in 1901 was 463,586, showing an apparent decrease of o•4 % in the decacee due to See also:emigration to the See also:Chenab See also:Colony. The See also:principal crops are See also:wheat, See also:pulse, See also:cotton and See also:fodder.

Camels are bred for export. The leading manufactures are of cotton and See also:

silk, and lacquered woodwork, and there are factories for ginning and pressing cotton. The district is traversed by the See also:main See also:line of the North-Western railway, from Lahore to Multan, and is irrigated by the Upper Sutlej inundation See also:canal See also:system, and also from the Ravi. From See also:time immemorial the Rechna Doab has formed the See also:home of a See also:wild See also:race of See also:pastoral See also:Jats, who have constantly maintained a sturdy See also:independence against the successive rulers of See also:northern India. The sites of Kot Kamalia and Harappa contain large mounds of See also:antique bricks and other ruins, while many othei remains of See also:ancient cities or villages See also:lie scattered along the river bank, or dot the now barren Stretches of the central See also:waste. The pastoral tribes of this barren expanse do not appear to have paid more than a nominal See also:allegiance to the Moslem rulers, and even in later days, when Ranjit Singh extended the See also:Sikh supremacy as far as Multan, the population for the most See also:part remained in a chronic See also:state of See also:rebellion. British See also:influence was first exercised in the district in 1847, when an officer was deputed to effect a See also:summary See also:settlement of the See also:land See also:revenue. See also:Direct British See also:rule was effected on the See also:annexation of the Punjab in 1849. There was a See also:general rising of the wild clans during the See also:Mutiny of 1857, several actions being fought before See also:order was restored.

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