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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 12, p. 24.

24 EMINABAD Eminabad.-Town in. the District. and tahsil of Gujranwala, Punjab, situated in 32° 2′ N. and 74° 16′ E., 8 miles south-east of Guiranwala town, on the North-Western Railway and the direct road to Amritsar. Population (19or), 6,494. The original town is said to have been founded by Salivahan, Raja of Sialkot, and was once called Saiyidpur. Sher Shah destroyed it in the tenth century and built Shergarh, which was itself destroyed and its Afghan garrison expelled under Akbar by Muhammad Amin, after whom the new town was called. The Mughal emperors made Eminabad the capital of a mahdl in the Lahore Subah. They were dispossessed in i ado by Sardar Charat Singh. Ranjit Singh gave the town in jagfr to Raja Dhyln Singh of Jammu, and it has never lost its connexion with that State, "several of whose prime ministers have been natives of Eminabad. A Sikh temple, the Rohri Sahib, commemorates the penance of Baba Nanak, when he made his bed on a heap of stones (rohri). The municipality was created in 1867. The income during the ten years ending. 1902-3 averaged Rs.'3,5oo, and the expenditure Rs. 3,300. The income in i903-4 was Rs. 3,000, chiefly from octroi; and the expenditure was Rs. 3,zoo. The town possesses an unaided Anglo- Sanskrit high school and also a .Government dispensary.- It is of no commercial importance. Enamakkal Lake.-A shallow lake in the Ponnll,ni tdtuk of, Malabar District, Madras, lying between 10° 26′ and I0° 36′ N. and 76° 1′ and 76° 14′ E. It covers about 25 square miles, the major portion of which lies within the limits of Native Cochin, and is remark able for the peculiar rice cultivation carried on in its bed. On ' the western side the lake is protected- by a masonry dam from tidal influences. As soon as the dry season has set in, artificial dams of bamboo and mud are raised to a height of 4 or 5 feet all over the lake, and the water is baled out of each partition by means of Persian wheels ` and steam pumps into channels, which form waterways high above the cultivation on either side. The soil of the lake is a very fine silt, and -excellent rice crops are raised.: English Bazar.-Head-quarters of Malda District,, Eastern Bengal and Assam, consisting of a series of trading villages lining the right bank of the Mahananda, situated in 25° 0′ N. and 88° 9′ E. Popula tion (rgos), 13,667. Being an open elevated site on the river bank in a mulberry-growing country, it was chosen in 1676 as the site of one of the Company's silk factories. The Dutch and the French also had ;settlements_ here, and the residence of the Civil Surgeon was formerly a Dutch convent. The East India Company's, factory was of consider- able importance during the last quarter. of the seventeenth century, and its ' Diaries and Consultations' from 1685 to 1693 are preserved in the India Office under the title of ' Maulda and Englesavade.' The town