Rawal Pindi

Rawal Pindi, a town and important military station of the Punjab, lies between the rivers Indus and Jhelum, 160 miles by rail NW. of Lahore. Since the extension of the railway to Peshawar, and since the last Afghan war, the town has increased at a rapid rate. Pop. (1868) 28,586; (1881) 52,980; (1891) 73,460. There are an arsenal (1883), a fort, a fine public park, several European churches, including the garrison church, in which Bishop Milman of Calcutta, who died here, was buried (1876), and the headquarters of the Punjab Northern State Railway. The place carries on an active transit-trade with Cashmere and Afghanistan. Here the Sikhs surrendered after their defeat at Gujrat (1849), and here too was held, in 1885, a great durbar or review, at which the Ameer of Afghanistan met Earl Dufferin, Governor-general of India.—The district (area, 4861 sq. m.; pop. 820,512) contains many of the towns connected with the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great.—The division has an area of 15,435 sq. m. and a pop. of 2,520,508.