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SHAHPUR , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in See also:Rawalpindi See also:division of the See also:Punjab. The town is near the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Jhelum. Pop. (1901) 9386. The district of Shahpur has an See also:area of 4840 sq. m. Its most important See also:physical subdivisions are the See also:Salt range in the See also:north, the valleys of the See also:Chenab and Jhelum, and the plains between those See also:rivers and between the Jhelum and the Salt range. The characteristics of these two plains are widely different: the See also:desert portion of the See also:southern See also:plain is termed the See also:bar; the corresponding See also:tract north of the Jhelum is known as the thal. The See also:climate of the plains is hot and dry, but in the Salt range it is much cooler; the See also:annual rainfall averages about 15 in. Tigers, leopards and wolves are found in the Salt range, while small See also:game and See also:antelope abound among the thick See also:jungle of the bar. In 19o1 the See also:population was 524,259, showing an increase of 6% in the See also:decade. The See also:principal crops are See also:wheat, millets, pulses and See also:cotton. See also:Irrigation is effected from See also:government canals, and also from See also:wells.

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chief commercial centre is See also:Bhera. The district is traversed by two branches of the North-Western railway. Shahpur passed into the hands of the See also:English along with the See also:rest of the Punjab in 1849. During the See also:Mutiny of 1857 the district remained tranquil, and though the villages of the bar gave cause for alarm no outbreak of sepoys occurred. Since See also:annexation the limits and constitution of the district have undergone many changes.

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