Sodhra (Sohdra)

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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.

Sodhra (Sohdra)

Town in the Wazirabad tahsil of Gujranwala District, Punjab, situated in 32° 29' N. and 74° 14' E., on the left bank of the Chenab, 5 miles east of wazirabad on the North-Western Railway. Population (1901), 5,050. Sodhra, which is administered as a 'notified area,' is a place of some antiquity, and had given its name to the Chenab, or to that part of it which lies in the plains, prior to the invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni. The river then flowed close under the town on the north, but is now over a mile away.