Kotri Town

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Kotri Town

Head-quarters of the Taluka of the same name, Karachi District, Sind, Bombay, situated in 25° 22' N. and 68° 22' E., on the right bank of the Indus, here confined by a tolerably per- manent bank. Population (1901), 7,617. Kotri has been placed in considerable danger by sudden and violent inundations of the Baran mountain torrent, to protect it from which a dam was erected some years since. It* is the southern junction of the branches of the North- Western Railway, running down either side of the Indus, which is here crossed by a fine railway bridge. The Indus Steam Flotilla formerly had its head-quarters at Kotri, with a large floating dock for the repair of its steamers.

Since the connexion of the railway in the Indus valley with the general railway system of India, the flotilla has been abolished, and its fleet of steamers sold ; but there is still a considerable boat traffic. The town is within the Jagir of Malik Sardar Khan, chief of the Numria or 'nine men' clan. Kotri was an unimportant village before the British conquest, except in a military point of view ; it served in 1839 as an encamping place of the Bombay division of the army advancing upon Afghanistan. The municipality, established in 1854, had an average income during the decade ending 1901 of about Rs. 18,000. In 1903-4 the income was about Rs. 15,500. There was an epidemic of cholera in 1879, since which date great attention has been paid to sanitary arrangements. The town contains a Subordinate Judge's court, a dispensary, six schools for boys with an average daily attendance of 532, and two schools for girls with an attendance of 139 pupils.