Punjab District Gazetteers, Attock District Part A. With Maps. 1907. Volume XXIXA. INDIA.

First edition, compiled only three years after the district's formation and including a plan of the civil station of Campbellpore. We have traced only ten copies on WorldCat, four of which are in the UK: University of Birmingham, Edinburgh University, Manchester University, and Oxford University. Attock has been inhabited since the classical period and was the location where Alexander the Great crossed the Indus. In the early 19th century it was occupied by the Sikh Kingdom under Ranjit Singh, but was taken by the British East India Company in the Second Sikh War in 1849. It was then renamed as Campbellpore District after Sir Colin Campbell, Commander-in-Chief of India. The district was annexed by the British government in 1858 and constituted as a distinct administrative body on 1 April 1904. This work contains comprehensive information on the district, from its physical geography and history to its agriculture, rent prices, wages, administrative divisions, policing, and education. It pays particular attention to the local tribes and their history, while providing precise data on population patterns, land ownership statistics, and trade. The maps show the borders of the district's local communities. Octavo. With 4 heliozincographed folding maps printed in black and orange, tables in text. Original red half cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey paper boards lettered in black, edges untrimmed. Binding worn, spine sunned, maps re-tipped to stubs and with light foxing and a few worm holes: a very good copy.