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31-559: The Imperial Gazetteer of India , compiled over a century ago during British rule , described the town as follows: Pindi Gheb Town.-Head-quarters of the subdivision and tahsil of the same name in Attock District, Punjab , situated in 33º 14' N. and 72º 16' E., 21 miles from Jand station on the North-Western Railway . Population (1901), 8,452. Formerly known as Pindi Gheb drives from two words pindi which means town and Gheba who

62-406: A vast accession to our knowledge of the people. The materials now amassed form a Statistical Survey of a continent with a population exceeding that of all Europe, Russia excepted." The statistical accounts, covering the 240 administrative districts, comprised 128 volumes and these were condensed into the nine volumes of The Imperial Gazetteer of India , which was published in 1881. The Gazetteer

93-494: Is Ijaz Abdul Karim. Pindi Gheb is an important region of trade and acts as an important terminal for the mega highway CPEC. The main economy of Pindi Gheb revolves around agriculture and cattle. The towns local government, however, according to local residents has failed numerous times to provide the town with any real infrastructural or educational developments. The relative population of the town still remains poor with low-grade roads and bridges. Contrary to such statements, some of

124-528: Is more costly than ignorance. I believe that, in spite of its many defects, this work will provide a memorable episode in the long battle against ignorance; a breakwater against the tide of prejudice and false opinions flowing down upon us from the past, and the foundation for a truer and wider knowledge of India in time to come. Its aim has been not literary graces, nor scientific discovery, nor antiquarian research; but an earnest endeavour to render India better governed, because better understood. Hunter contributed

155-409: The A Statistical Account of Bengal (20 volumes, 1875–1877) and a similar work for Assam (2 volumes, 1879). Hunter wrote that Under this system, the materials for the whole of British India have now been collected, in several Provinces the work of compilation has rapidly advanced, and everywhere it is well in hand. During the same period the first Census of India has been taken, and furnished

186-525: The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series were prepared. William Wilson Hunter Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (15 July 1840 – 6 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service . He is most known for The Imperial Gazetteer of India on which he started working in 1869, and which

217-629: The "three significant works" produced by Anglo-Indian writers on Indian missionaries along with The Hosts of the Lord (1900) by Flora Annie Steel and Idolatry (1909) by Alice Perrin . In the winter of 1898–1899, in consequence of the fatigue incurred in a journey to the Caspian and back, on a visit to the sick-bed of one of his two sons, Hunter was stricken down by a severe attack of influenza , which affected his heart. He died at Oaken Holt on 6 February 1900. S. C. Mittal believes that Hunter "represented

248-628: The Indian Muslims are "bound by their religion to rebel against the Queen" Hunter completed his influential work The Indian Musalmans in mid-June 1871 and later published it as a book in mid-August of the same year. In it, Hunter concluded that the majority of the Indian Muslim scholars rejected the idea of rebelling against the Government because of their opinion that the condition for religious war, i.e.

279-637: The Sikh and British eras which can be visited free of cost. There is also a waterfall nearby known to harbor a rare species of fish. The area is known to be relatively safe as it is included in the zone of "Act for the Super fortification for the North West Districts of Punjab" which is done with the use of Attock fort, known to be located close by. Pindi Gheb can today be visited by the CPEC, or 8 local roads that lead towards

310-468: The absence of protection and liberty between Muslims and infidel rulers, did not exist in British India; and that "there is no jihad in a country where protection is afforded". In 1872 Hunter published his history of Orissa . The third International Sanitary Conference held at Constantinople in 1866 declared Hindu and Muslim pilgrimages to be 'the most powerful of all the causes which conduce to

341-589: The articles "Bombay", "Calcutta", "Dacca", "Delhi" and "Mysore" to the 9th edition (1875–89) of the Encyclopædia Britannica . In 1882 Hunter, as a member of the governor-general's council, presided over the Commission on Indian Education; in 1886 he was elected vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta . In 1887 he retired from the service, was created KCSI , and settled at Oaken Holt, near Oxford . He

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372-485: The city through other paths inside of Attock. As with the rest of Pakistan, Urdu has official status. However, the language variety spoken natively in the area is Ghebi – a Hindko dialect that is closely related to Chacchi and Awankari . Imperial Gazetteer of India The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire , and is now a historical reference work. It

403-563: The correct pronunciation is ordinarily indicated; but hardly sufficient allowance was made for old spellings consecrated by history and long usage." Hunter's own article on India was published in 1880 as A Brief History of the Indian Peoples , and has been widely translated and utilized in Indian schools. A revised form was issued in 1895, under the title of The Indian Empire: its People, History and Products . Hunter later said that Nothing

434-455: The development and propagation of Cholera epidemics'. Hunter echoing the view described the 'squalid pilgrim army of Jagannath' as with its rags and hair and skin freighted with vermin and impregnated with infection, may any year slay thousands of the most talented and beautiful of our age in Vienna, London, or Washington. He embarked on a series of tours throughout the country, and he supervised

465-513: The index and atlas. The New Editions were all published by the Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK. The first edition of The Imperial Gazetteer of India was published in nine volumes in 1881. A second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885–87. After the death of Sir William Wilson Hunter in 1900, Sir Herbert Hope Risley , William Stevenson Meyer , Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton compiled

496-416: The industry of the writer but contains much immature philological speculation". In 1869 Lord Mayo , the then governor-general , asked Hunter to submit a scheme for a comprehensive statistical survey of India. The work involved the compilation of a number of local gazetteers, in various stages of progress, and their consolidation in a condensed form upon a single and uniform plan. There was unhappiness with

527-596: The landscape of Punjab region . After the decline of the Mughal Empire , the Sikh invaded and occupied Attock District . The Muslims faced severe restrictions during the Sikh rule . During the period of British rule , Attock District increased in population and importance. The predominantly Muslim population supported Muslim League and Pakistan Movement . After the independence of Pakistan in 1947. The name of incumbent Assistant Commissioner of Pindi Gheb sub division

558-548: The materials for his publication, entitled The Annals of Rural Bengal , which influenced the historical romances of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay . He also compiled A Comparative Dictionary of the Non-Aryan Languages of India , a glossary of dialects based mainly upon the collections of Brian Houghton Hodgson , which according to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition , "testifies to

589-565: The publication of the series by June 1889; with Hunter receiving £75 for each volume, and the author £25. Gell's experience of the earlier unsaleable Sacred Books of the East and financial constraints forced the Rulers of India to end at 28 volumes in spite of Hunter's disappointment about the same. Hunter himself contributed the volumes on Dalhousie (1890) and Mayo (1891) to the series. He had previously written an official Life of Lord Mayo , which

620-692: The richest families in Northern Punjab come from Pindi Gheb, with them owning thousands of acres of lands, huge properties both abroad and in urban centers in Pakistan, heavy presence in the industrial sector and close affiliation with people affiliated with the military and government. However, recently many reforms were passed by the government of Punjab to commence energy and road projects in Attock, including Pindi Gheb. There are many monuments present in Pindi Gheb from

651-548: The scope and completeness of the earlier surveys conducted by administrators such as Buchanan , and Hunter determined to model his efforts on the Ain-i-Akbari and Description de l'Égypte . Hunter said that "It was my hope to make a memorial of England's work in India, more lasting, because truer and more complete, than these monuments of Mughal Empire and of French ambition." In response to Mayo's question on 30 May 1871 of whether

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682-402: The twenty-six volume Imperial Gazetteer of India . A revised form of the article on India, greatly enlarged and with statistics brought up to date, appeared as an independent volume in 1893, under the title of The Indian Empire: Its Peoples, History, and Products. All of these were edited by Hunter, who formed the original plan of the work in 1869. A parallel series of publications known as

713-656: Was Rs. 5,800. A vernacular middle school is maintained by the municipality, and a dispensary by Government. In 997 CE, Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi , took over the Ghaznavid dynasty empire established by his father, Sultan Sebuktegin , In 1005 he conquered the Shahis in Kabul in 1005, and followed it by the conquests of Punjab region . The Delhi Sultanate and later Mughal Empire ruled the region. The Punjab region became predominantly Muslim due to missionary Sufi saints whose dargahs dot

744-456: Was a Gurkani Mughal Prince,Cousin of babur, Ancestor of Royal Gurkani Mughal Sardar family of Gheba and is now the ancestral home of the Johdra Rajputs and Ghebas, who founded it in the 15th century. The municipality was created in 1873. The income and expenditure during the ten years ending 1902-3 averaged Rs. 4,400. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 5,200, chiefly from octroi ; and the expenditure

775-482: Was educated at the University of Glasgow ( BA 1860), Paris and Bonn , acquiring a knowledge of Sanskrit , LL.D. , before passing first in the final examination for the Indian Civil Service in 1862. He reached Bengal Presidency in November 1862 and was appointed assistant magistrate and collector of Birbhum , in the lower provinces of Bengal , where he began collecting local traditions and records, which formed

806-480: Was eventually published in nine volumes in 1881, then fourteen, and later as a twenty-six volume set after his death. William Wilson Hunter was born on 15 July 1840 in Glasgow , Scotland , to Andrew Galloway Hunter, a Glasgow manufacturer. He was the second of his father's three sons. In 1854 he started his education at the 'Quaker Seminary' at Queenswood, Hampshire , and a year later he joined The Glasgow Academy . He

837-413: Was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869. The 1908, 1909 and 1931 "New Editions" have four encyclopedic volumes covering the geography, history, economics, and administration of India; 20 volumes of the alphabetically arranged gazetteer, listing places' names and providing statistics and summary information; and one volume each comprising

868-594: Was much hindered by the confused state of his materials, a portion of which he arranged and published in 1894 as Bengal Manuscript Records , in three volumes. Hunter dedicated his 1892 work Bombay 1885 to 1890: A Study in Indian Administration to Florence Nightingale . His later works include the novel titled The Old Missionary (1895, described on the title-page as "revised from The Contemporary Review "), and The Thackerays in India (1897). John F. Riddick describes Hunter's The Old Missionary as one of

899-603: Was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1895 until his death in 1900. On 13 March 1889 Philip Lyttelton Gell the then Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press , wrote to Hunter about a project which has been for some time under the consideration of the Delegates, to publish a series giving the salient features of Indian History in the Biographies of successive Generals and Administrators. Gell arranged

930-508: Was published on 19 November 1875 in two volumes with a second edition appearing in 1876. He also wrote a weekly article on Indian affairs for The Times . But the great task to which he applied himself on his settlement in England was a history upon a large scale of the British Dominion in India , two volumes of which only had appeared when he died, carrying the reader barely down to 1700. He

961-536: Was revised in later series, the second edition comprising 14 volumes published between 1885 and 1887, while the third comprised 26 volumes, including an atlas, and was published in 1908 under the editorship of Herbert Hope Risley , William Stevenson Meyer , Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton . Again according to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Hunter "adopted a transliteration of vernacular place-names, by which means

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