Rajanpur
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Rajanpur (Urdu: راجن پور), is a city and the headquarters of the Rajanpur District and tehsil in the extreme southwest part of Punjab, Pakistan (29:06N, 70:19E). The district lies entirely west of the Indus River (Sindhu river); it is a narrow, 20 to 40 miles wide strip of land sandwiched between the Indus river on the east and the Sulaiman range of hills and mountains on the west. The town is approximately nine miles from the right (west) bank of the river. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan it had a population of 42,986[1]
[edit] History
Rajanpur was either founded by or occupied and renamed as Rajanpur by a warlord Makhdoon Shaikh Rajan in 1772-73. It remained a small and little known village located on the road from Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab to Sukkur in Sindh until 1862. In that year, Mithankot, a larger and more prosperous town, located on the Sindhu river several miles southeast of Rajanpur was completely destroyed by river floods. The administrative offices of the Assistant District Commissioner of the British government were moved from Mithankot to Rajanpur, because of its location at a safe distance from the river. Many prosperous Hindu Arora merchants and traders also moved from Mithankot to Rajanpur. It became a municipality and the tahsil headquarters in 1873. Rajanpur district has three tehsils; Jampur in the north, Rajanpur in the center and Rojhan in the south. In addition, there is a "tribal area" in the hills of Sulaiman range. Asni, Dajal, Fazilpur, Harand, Hajipur, Jampur, Lalgarh, Mithankot, Muhammedpur, Rajanpur, Rojhan, and Umerkot are the large or historic towns and cities in the district.BY.RIAZ HUSSAIN.PATROLLING POLICE
[edit] References
- ^ 1998 census of Pakistan
