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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 694 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KASUR , a

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TOWN

town of

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BRITISH

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India, in the

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LAHORE

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DISTRICT

district of the

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PUNJAB

Punjab, situated on the

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BANK

bank of the old

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BED
BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed of the

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RIVER

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BEAS

Beas, 34 M . S.E. of Lahore . Pop . (Igor), 22,022 . A

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RAJPUT

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COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony seems to have occupied the

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PRESENT

present site before the earliest

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MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan invasion; but Kasur does not appear in

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HISTORY

history until

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LATE

late in the Mussulman

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period, when it was settled by a

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PATHAN

Pathan colony from beyond the

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INDUS

Indus . It has an export

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GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and

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cotton, and manufactures of cotton and

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leather goods .

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