Sandal Bar

Sandal Bar (Punjabi: ساندل بار), also known as the Jungle Bar,[1] is the section of the Bar region in western Punjab located between the rivers Ravi and Chenab, and comprises the southern part of Rechna Doab. It corresponds to the present-day Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh and Chiniot districts.[2]

The Sandal bar falls within the lower half of Rechna Doab (grey colour) in this map

Sandal Bar is named after Sandal, grandfather of the 16th-century Punjabi chieftain Dulla Bhatti who, according to the popular folklores, led a revolt against the Mughal rule in the Sandal Bar during the reign of Akbar.[3] Until the late-19th century it was sparsely populated, when it was brought under irrigation after the establishment of Chenab Colony (Lyallpur) in 1892.[4]

  1. ^ Latif, Syad Muhammad (1997). History of the Punjab from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Time. Sang-e-Meel Publications. p. 294. ISBN 9789693507355.
  2. ^ Soofi, Mushtaq (13 June 2014). "Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab". Dawn. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  3. ^ Singh, Surinder (2008). "Mughal Centralization and Local Resistance in North-Western India: An Exploration in the Ballad of Dulla Bhatti". In Singh, Surinder; Gaur, Ishwar Dayal (eds.). Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia. Pearson Education India. pp. 89–112. ISBN 978-81-317-1358-7.
  4. ^ Gilmartin, David (2015). Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History. University of California Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-520-35553-8.