Jacobabad Town
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Jacobabad Town
Head-quarters of the Upper Sind Frontier District, Sind, Bombay, situated in 28° 17' N. and 68° 29' E., on the Sind-Pishin branch of the North-^^'estern Railway. Population (1901), 10,787, of whom 3,107 were in the cantonments. Jacobabad was planned and laid out, in 1847, by Ceneral John Jacob, for many vcars commandant of the Sind Horse, on the site of the village of Khangarh. The town is oblong in shape, 2 miles long by i mile broad, and is watered by the Raj Wah and Budhu Wah irrigation canals. Jacobabad is now the head-quarters of a regiment of native cavah-y, as well as of the civil administration. In addition to the cantonments, civil and judicial courts, dispensary and jail, it also contains a Residency in which Cieneral Jacob resided, the tomb of General Jacob, who died here in 1858, the Victoria clock-tower built in 1887, and lines for the accommodation of trade caravans {kafilas) from Central Asia. Here are also a cloth market and vegetable market, built by the municipality. The railway carries a considerable trade in grain, ,i,'v^7, and leather. The town was constituted a municipality in 1875. The income during the decade ending 1901 averaged Rs. 57,300. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 70,000, composed chiefly of octroi (Rs. 32,000) and market fees (Rs. 17,000); while the expenditure was Rs. 76,000, including Rs. 22,000 spent on education, Rs. 16,000 on administrative charges, and Rs. 14,000 on roads. The income and expenditure of the canton- ment fund in the same year were respectively Rs. 19,000 and Rs. 13,000.
