Nabha Town
Nabha Town, 1908
Capital of the Nabha State, Punjab, situated in 30° 23' N. and 76° 10' E., on the Rajpura-Bhatinda branch of the North-Western Raihvay. Population (1901), 18,468. Founded on the site of two older villages in 1755 by Hamir Singh, chief and afterwards Raja of Nabha, it has since been the capital of the State. It is surrounded by a mud wall containing six gates. In the heart of the town is a fort, with a masonry rampart and four towers. One part of the fort is kept private, while the rest is used for state offices. The marble monuments of former Rajas are situated in the Sham Bagh inside the town. The palaces of the Raja and the heir apparent are in the Pukhta Garden outside the town, while Elgin House, a spacious building, reserved for the accommodation of dis- tinguished visitors, stands in the Mubarak Garden close by. The cantonment and the jail, which has accommodation for 500 prisoners, lie outside the town. The principal exports are grain, oilseeds, and raw and ginned cotton ; the principal imports are sugar and cloth. The town is administered as a municipality; the income in 1903-4 was Rs. 19,000, chiefly derived from octroi, and the expenditure was Rs. 22,200. It contains a high school and a hospital, called the Lansdowne Hospital.
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.
