The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir

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Book Excerpt: …eg; 2’ N., which is much the same as the latitude of Syracuse. In the south-east the Panjab ends at 27 Degrees 4’ N., corresponding roughly to the position of the southernmost of the Canary Islands. Lines drawn west from Peshawar and Lahore would pass to the north of Beirut and Jerusalem respectively. Multan and Cairo are in the same latitude, and so are Delhi and Teneriffe. Kashmir stretches eastwards to longitude 80 Degrees 3’ and the westernmost part of Waziristan is in 69 Degrees 2’ E. Distribution of Area. –The area dealt with is roughly 253,000 square miles. This is but two-thirteenths of the area of the Indian Empire, and yet it is less by only 10,000 square miles than that of Austria-Hungary including Bosnia and Herzegovina. The area consists of: sq. miles(1) The Panjab 97,000 (2) Native States dependent on Panjab Government 36,500 (3) Kashmir 81,000 (4) North West Frontier Province 13,000 (5) Tribal territory under the poli…