Nandana
Nandana, 1908
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.
Place of historical interest in the Pind Dadan Khan Tahsil of Jhelum District, Punjab, situated in 32° 43' N. and 73° 17' E., 14 miles west of Choa Saidan Shah, in a remarkable dip in the outer Salt Range. Near by are extensive remains of a temple, a fort, and a large village. The temple is in the Kashmiri style, but faces west, instead of east, as temples of that style usually do. Of the fort, two bastions of large w-ell-cut sandstone blocks still remain. Nandana is mentioned as the objective of one of Mahmud of Ghazni's expedi- tions in 1014. Early in the thirteenth century it was held by Kamr-ud-din Karmani, who was dispossessed by a general of Jalal- ud-dln. Sultan of Khwarizm. The latter was defeated on the Indus in 1 221 by Chingiz Khan, one of whose ofificers, Turti, the Mongol, took Nandana and put its inhabitants to the sword. It appears in the list of places conquered by Altamsh, who entrusted it to one of his nobles. In 1247 his son Mahmud Shah dispatched an army to ravage the hills of Jud and the country round Nandana, to punish a Rana who had guided a Mongol inroad in the previous year.
