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'''[[Sandal Bar]]''' ({{lang-pa|ساندل بار}}) is the section of the [[Bar region]] in western Punjab located between the rivers [[Ravi River|Ravi]] and [[Chenab]], and comprises the southern part of [[Rechna Doab]]. It corresponds to the present-day [[Faisalabad District|Faisalabad]], [[Jhang District|Jhang]], [[Toba Tek Singh District|Toba Tek Singh]] and [[Chiniot District|Chiniot]] districts.<ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1112454 |title=Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab|newspaper=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]|first=Mushtaq |last=Soofi|date=13 June 2014|access-date=26 May 2023}}</ref> |
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[[File:Punjabdoabs1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Sandal bar falls within the grey |
[[File:Punjabdoabs1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Sandal bar falls within the lower half of Rechna Doab (grey colour) in this map]] |
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The '''Sandal Bar''' ({{lang-pa|{{nq|ساندل بار}}}}) is a region between the rivers [[Chenab]] and [[Ravi River|Ravi]] in [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]].<ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1112454 |title=Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|author=Mushtaq Soofi|date=13 June 2014|access-date=26 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=Youlin>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youlinmagazine.com/article/hafizabad-romance-of-rice/MTk2Mg==|title=Hafizabad: Romance of Rice|website=Youlin Magazine|date=19 March 2021|access-date=26 May 2023|author=Haroon Shuaib}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Report on Land and Water Development in the Indus Plain |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |others=White House: Department of Interior Panel on Waterlogging and Salinity in West Pakistan |year=1964 |pages=26}}</ref> |
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Sandal Bar is named after Sandal, grandfather of the 16th-century Punjabi chieftain [[Dulla Bhatti]] who, according to the popular folklores, led a revolt against the Mughal rule in the Sandal Bar during the reign of [[Akbar]].<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=Mughal Centralization and Local Resistance in North-Western India: An Exploration in the Ballad of Dulla Bhatti|last=Singh |first=Surinder |editor-last1=Singh |editor-first1=Surinder |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVA0JAzQJkYC&pg=PA89&dq=&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-1f-iu-2HAxUzRvEDHa3YDq4Q6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=&f=false |title=Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia |editor-last2=Gaur |editor-first2=Ishwar Dayal |date=2008 |publisher=Pearson Education India |isbn=978-81-317-1358-7 |language=en|pages=89–112}}</ref> Until the late-19th century it was sparsely populated, when it was brought under irrigation after the establishment of [[Punjab Canal Colonies#Chenab Colony|Chenab Colony]] ([[Lyallpur]]) in 1892.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gilmartin |first=David |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520355538/blood-and-water |title=Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History |date=2015 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-35553-8 |pages=146 |language=en}}</ref> |
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It is located in the southern part of [[Rechna Doab]].<ref>{{Cite book| title = 1998 District Census report of Bahawalnagar| location = Islamabad| publisher = Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan| series = Census publication | volume = 110| date = 2000|page = 6}}</ref> It spreads over almost {{Convert|40|mi|km|abbr=out}} in width (west to east) and {{Convert|80|mi|km|abbr=out}} in length (north to south). "Bar", in the local language, means a region of natural jungle or wild forest where there are no resources for cultivation like water and an area of human settlement.<ref name=Dawn/> |
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Sandal Bar is named after Saandal, thought to be the grandfather of the legendary Punjabi hero, [[Dulla Bhatti]]. Almost all the area of this bar used to be part of [[Jhang District]], but nowadays it is administratively divided among the districts of [[Faisalabad District|Faisalabad]], [[Jhang]] and [[Toba Tek Singh]].<ref name=Dawn/> |
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Sandal Bar was actually a vast area with a number of Punjabi tribes sharing the same culture and language. Nowadays Sandal Bar falls within [[Jhang]], [[Tandlianwala]], [[Jaranwala]] and [[Pir Mahal]]. Some parts of [[Pindi Bhattian]], [[Chiniot District]].<ref name=Dawn/> |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Revision as of 17:48, 15 August 2024
Sandal Bar (Template:Lang-pa) is the section of the Bar region in western Punjab located between the rivers Ravi and Chenab, and comprises the southern part of Rechna Doab. It corresponds to the present-day Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh and Chiniot districts.[1]
Sandal Bar is named after Sandal, grandfather of the 16th-century Punjabi chieftain Dulla Bhatti who, according to the popular folklores, led a revolt against the Mughal rule in the Sandal Bar during the reign of Akbar.[2] Until the late-19th century it was sparsely populated, when it was brought under irrigation after the establishment of Chenab Colony (Lyallpur) in 1892.[3]
References
- ^ Soofi, Mushtaq (13 June 2014). "Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab". Dawn. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ Singh, Surinder (2008). "Mughal Centralization and Local Resistance in North-Western India: An Exploration in the Ballad of Dulla Bhatti". In Singh, Surinder; Gaur, Ishwar Dayal (eds.). Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia. Pearson Education India. pp. 89–112. ISBN 978-81-317-1358-7.
- ^ Gilmartin, David (2015). Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History. University of California Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-520-35553-8.
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