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WAZIRABAD

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAZIRABAD  , a

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town of
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British India, in
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Gujranwala
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district of the
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Punjab, near the right
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bank of the
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river Chenab, 62 m . N. of
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Lahore . Pop . (1901) 18,069 . It is an important railway junction . The main
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line of the North-Western railway here crosses the Chenab by the Alexandra
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bridge, opened by the prince of Wales in 1876 . The branch to Sialkot has been ex-tended to
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Jammu (51 m.); another branch follows the line of the Chenab canal towards Multan . Boat-
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building and manufactures of steel and iron are carried on .

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