Bawal Nizamat
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.
Bawal Nizamat
A nizamat or administrative district of the Nabha State, Punjab, lying between 28° and 28° 25' N. and 76° 15' and 76° 45' E., with an area of 281 miles. The population in 1901 was 71,430, compared with 68,147 i" 1891. It contains one town, Bawal (population, 5,739), the head-quarters ; and 164 villages. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to 2-2 lakhs. The nizamat consists of three separate pieces of territory : Bawal proper, Kanti-Kalina, and the isolated village of Mukandpur Basi. Bawal proper lies south of Rewari, a tahs'il of the British District of Gurgaon, and forms a wedge jutting southwards into the Alwar and Jaipur States of Rajputana. It is separated by the Rewari tahsil from the pargana of Kanti-Kalina, 21 miles long by 19/2 broad, lying parallel to the Narnaul nizamat of the Patiala State. The whole nizamat is geographically a part of the Rajputana desert, being an arid, rainless tract, singularly destitute of trees, streams, and tanks, though the Sawi, a seasonal torrent which rises in the Jaipur hills, passes through the southern edge of the Bawal pargana. It is divided into the two police circles of Bawal Kanti and Chauki Deb-Kalan.
