Gazetteer of the Ferozepore District 1883-84
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2000
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Sang-E-Meel Publications
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The period fixed by the Punjab Government for the compilation of the Gazetteer of the Province being limited to twelve months, the Editor has not been able to prepare any original matter for the present work ; and his duties have been confined to throwing the already existing material into shape, supplementing it as far as possible by contributions obtained from district officers, passing the draft through the press, circulating it for revision, altering it in accordance with the corrections and suggestions of revising officers, and printing and issuing the final edition. The material available in print for the Gazetteer of this district consisted of the Settlement Reports, and a draft Gazetteer, compiled between 1870 .1nd 1874 by Mr. F. Cunningham, Barrister-at-Law. Notes on certain points have been supplied by district officers; while the report on the Census of 1881 has been utilized. Of the present volume, Section A. of Chap. V. (General Administration), and the whole of Chap. VI. (Towns), have been for the most part supplied ' by the Deputy Commissioner; Section A. of Chap. I I I. (Statistics of Population) has been taken from the Census Report; while here and there pa5sages have been extracted from existing publications, or have been specially written for the Gazetteer by officers acquainted with the district. But much of the text has been almost if not quite verbally, from Mr Cunningham’s compilation already referred to, which again was largely based upon Mr. Edward Brandreth’s settlement Report of the district. The report in question was written in 1855, and, modelled on the meagre lines of the older settlement reports, affords very inadequate material for an account of the district. No better or fuller material, however, was either available or procurable within the time allowed. But when the district again comes under settlement, a second and mon complete edition of this Gazetteer will be prepared; and meanwhile the present edition will serve the useful purpose of collecting and publishing in a systematic form, information which had before been scattered and in part unpublished. The draft edition of this Gazetteer has been revised by Col. Grey. Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Purser, and Mr. Fanshawe. The Deputy Commissioner is responsible for the spelling of vernacular names, which has been fixed throughout by him in accordance with the prescribed system of transliteration. The final edition, though compiled by the Editor, has been passed through the press by Mr. Stack