Rajanpur
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Rajanpur (Urdu: راجن پور), is a city and the headquarters of the Rajanpur District and tehsil in the extreme southwest part of Punjab, Pakistan (29:06N, 70:19E). The district lies entirely west of the Indus River (Sindhu river); it is a narrow, 20 to 40 miles wide strip of land sandwiched between the Indus river on the east and the Sulaiman range of hills and mountains on the west. The town is approximately nine miles from the right (west) bank of the river. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan it had a population of 42,986^[1]

History

Rajanpur was either founded by or occupied and renamed as Rajanpur by a warlord Makhdoon Shaikh Rajan in 1772-73. It remained a small and little known village located on the road from Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab to Sukkur in Sindh until 1862. In that year, Mithankot, a larger and more prosperous town, located on the Sindhu river several miles southeast of Rajanpur was completely destroyed by river floods. The administrative offices of the Assistant District Commissioner of the British government were moved from Mithankot to Rajanpur, because of its location at a safe distance from the river. Many prosperous Hindu Arora merchants and traders also moved from Mithankot to Rajanpur. It became a municipality and the tahsil headquarters in 1873. Rajanpur district has three tehsils; Jampur in the north, Rajanpur in the center and Rojhan in the south. In addition, there is a "tribal area" in the hills of Sulaiman range. Asni, Dajal, Fazilpur, Harand, Hajipur, Jampur, Lalgarh, Mithankot, Muhammedpur, Rajanpur, Rojhan, and Umerkot are the large or historic towns and cities in the district.

Language

Siraiki (سرایکی )is main language of district Rajan pur.Khawaja Farid and Ghulam Rasool Dada were famous poets.Ismail Ahmedani was famous Siraiki novelist.Urdu is spoken in educated families and young generation.

Tribes

These are main tribes of Rajan pur but new Generation and educated people do not believe them.

• Mazari :Mazri is main tribe of Rajan pur .Mir Balakh Sher Mazari is its chief .He is ex-prime minister of Pakistan
• Dareshak: This tribe is second to Mazari.Sardar Nasrullah Khan is ex-Minister.Aman-u-llah is now M.P.A. T
• Gurchani:Gurchi tribe is also a big tribe of this district.Sher Ali and Athar Khan Gurchi are M.P.As
• Lund:This is a small tribe of tehsil Jampur.
• Ahmedani:It is a big tribe but very scatered in district .Some famous writers belong this tribe like Ismail Ahmedani
• Mastoi:It is a small tribe

Historical places

• Mithankot:It is famous for the tomb of a legend mystic Siraiki poet Khwaja_Ghulam_ Farid
• Mari:A good place like Murree on the mount of Suleman
• Rasoolpur It is model village of this district

References

See also

• Rajanpur District
• Punjab, Pakistan
• Balochistan
• Pakistan