Sialkot

Sialkot, a town in the Punjab, near the left bank of the Chenab, 72 miles N. by E. of Lahore, is a rapidly growing, clean, and well-built town, with large manufactures of paper and a native cloth. There are an old fort, gallantly held by a few Europeans in 1857, but now converted into public offices, several shrines sacred to the Sikhs and the Mohammedans, the Punjab military prison, a public garden, &c. Pop. (1881) 45,760; (1891) 54,930, including the cantonment, one mile to the north.—The district has an area of 1958 sq. m. and a pop. (1881) of 1,012,148.