Hazara District

Hazara District

Hazara District was a district of Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan until 1976.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the district as follows.

cquote|Northernmost District of the North - West Frontier Province, and the only portion of that Province east of the Indus. It lies between 33° 44′ and 35° 10′ N. and 72° 33′ and 74° 6′ E., with an area Of 2,858, or, including Tanāwal, convert|3062|sqmi|km2. The District consists of a long tongue of British territory running north and south for convert|120|mi|km. The southern base is convert|56|mi|km in width, and the centre 40, while the Kāgān valley, in the north east, is only about convert|15|mi|km broad. On the north the Kāgān range separates the District from Chilās, a dependency of Kashmir; and on the east the range which borders the left bank of the Kunhār river and the Jhelum separates it from Kashmir, Punch, and the Punjab, District of Rawalpindi ; north-west lie the Black Mountain and the lofty ranges which overhang the eastern bank of the Indus; and on the south is Attock District of the Punjab. Thus the District lies like a wedge of British territory driven in between Kashmir on the east and the independent hills on the west. Hazara presents every gradation of scenery, altitude, and climate.The valley of the Harroh, only convert|1500|ft|m above sea-level, merges into the Hazara plain, an area of convert|200|sqmi|km2, with a mean elevation of convert|2500|ft|m. Higher again is the Orāsh plain, where Abbottābād lies between 4,000 and convert|5000|ft|m above the sea. Lastly the Kāgān valley, comprising one-third of the total area, is a sparsely populated mountain glen, shut in by parallel ranges of hills which rise to convert|17000|ft|m above the sea. Never more than convert|15|mi|km apart, these ranges throw out spurs across the valley, leaving only a narrow central gorge through which the Kunhar river forces an outlet to the Jhelum [ [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_080.gifImperial Gazetteer of India, v. 13, p. 74.] ] |.


=Khatris and Khokhran=

Hazara historically had a significant population of Hindus including Khatris and Brahmans .The principals classes of Hindus in the district are Brahmans and Khatris [Gazetteer of Hazara District 1883-4 Published by Sang e meel publications page 74] The principal sub-divisions of the Khatris are Khukhran, Bahri (Multani), and Bunjai. [Gazetteer of Hazara District 1883-4 Published by Sang e meel publications page 76.] The Kukhrans contract no marriages , except among themselves. [Gazetteer of Hazara District 1883-4 Published by Sang e meel publications page 76]

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