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Hazara District


Hazara District was district of Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan until 1976.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the district as follows.

The valley of the Harroh, only 1,500 feet (460 m) above sea-level, merges into the Hazara plain, an area of 200 square miles (520 km2), with a mean elevation of 2,500 feet (760 m). Higher again is the Orāsh plain, where Abbottābād lies between 4,000 and 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above the sea. Lastly the Kāgān valley, comprising one-third of the total area, is a sparsely populated mountain glen, shut in by parallel ranges of hills which rise to 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above the sea. Never more than 15 miles (24 km) apart, these ranges throw out spurs across the valley, leaving only a narrow central gorge through which the Kunhar river forces an outlet to the Jhelum

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Hazara historically had a significant population of Hindus including Khatris and Brahmans. The principal classes of Hindus in the district are Brahmans and Khatris. The principal sub-divisions of the Khatris are Khukhran, Bahri (Multani), and Bunjai. The Kukhrans contract no marriages, except among themselves.


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