Gujar Khan Tehsil ( Pothwari , Urdu : تحصِیل گُوجر خان ), headquartered at Gujar Khan , is one of the seven Tehsils (sub-divisions) of Rawalpindi District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into 36 Union Councils and according to the 1998 census has a population of 42,000. In 2017 census Gujar Khan has a population of 678,503.
6-520: The tehsil of Gujar Khan was described in the Imperial Gazetteer of India , compiled during the first decade of the twentieth century, as follows: "Southern tahsil of Rawalpindi District , Punjab , lying between 33°4′ and 33°26′ N. and 72°56′ and 73°37′ E., with an area of 567 square miles. It is bounded on the east by the Jhelum river , which cuts it off from Kashmir territory . Except for
12-554: A low ridge of sandstone hills along the Jhelum, the tehsil consists of a plain intersected by numerous ravines. The population in 1901 was 150,566, compared with 152,455 in 1891. It contains 381 villages, of which Gujar Khan is the headquarters. The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to 2-7 lakhs." During the period of British rule , Gujar Khan Tehsil increased in population and importance. The predominantly Muslim population supported Muslim League and Pakistan Movement . After
18-452: Is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869. The 1908, 1909 and 1931 "New Editions" have four encyclopedic volumes covering the geography, history, economics, and administration of India; 20 volumes of the alphabetically arranged gazetteer, listing places' names and providing statistics and summary information; and one volume each comprising
24-600: The independence of Pakistan in 1947, the minority Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India while the Muslims refugees from India settled down in the Rawalpindi District . The tehsil of Gujar Khan is administratively subdivided into 36 Union Councils, these are: Imperial Gazetteer of India The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire , and
30-523: The index and atlas. The New Editions were all published by the Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK. The first edition of The Imperial Gazetteer of India was published in nine volumes in 1881. A second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885–87. After the death of Sir William Wilson Hunter in 1900, Sir Herbert Hope Risley , William Stevenson Meyer , Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton compiled
36-402: The twenty-six volume Imperial Gazetteer of India . A revised form of the article on India, greatly enlarged and with statistics brought up to date, appeared as an independent volume in 1893, under the title of The Indian Empire: Its Peoples, History, and Products. All of these were edited by Hunter, who formed the original plan of the work in 1869. A parallel series of publications known as
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