Geography
It occupies the southern part of the doab called Bist Jullundur, i.e. the country between the Beas River and the Sutlej; this great river forms its southern boundary, the Beas its west; the center (north) is an enclave of District Kaphurtala derived from a territory that was the Maharaja’s.
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