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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 24, p. 82.

UBA URO receives a very uncertain supply of water from the Mahi Wah, and the Cultivators are rather less prosperous than in other parts of Sind. There is a large area of jdgir land within the tâluha. Uch (Uchh=°high place').-Town in the Ahmadpur tahsil of the Bahâwalpur State, Punjab, situated in 29° 14' N. and 710 4' E., 38 miles south-east of Bahâwalpur town, on the south bank of the Sutlej opposite its confluence with the Chènâb. Population (1901), 7,583. The muni- cipality had an income in 1903-4 of RS. 2,000, chiefly from octroi. Archaeologically and historically Uch is a place of great interest. Sir Alexander Cunningham identified it with the city which Alexander the Great built near the meeting of the Punjab rivers. He believed that it is also the town mentioned by Rashid-ud-din as the capital of one of the four principalities of Sind under Ayand, the son of Kafand. This identification is, however, far from certain. Uch was in the twelfth century known as Deogarh, 'the gods' stronghold ' ; and its ruler, Deo Singh, fled to Mârwâr when the great Muhammadan missionary and saint Saiyid Jalâl-ud-din Bukhâri came to the place, converted Sundarpuri, Deo Singh's daughter, to Islam, and bade her build a fort called uchha or uchh (' high'). Since then it has been known to Muhammadans as Uch-i-Sharif or 'Uch the Sacred.' In spite of its undoubted antiquity, Uch is not mentioned by the earlier Muhammadan historians under that name. Raverty, however, identi- fied it with the town of Bhâtiâh near Multân, mentioned by the historians of the Ghaznivid period as taken by Mahmiid of Ghazni in ioo6. Subsequently recaptured by Muhammad of Ghor, it became the chief city of Upper Sind under Nâsir-ud-din Kubacha, and was burnt by Jalâl-ud-din Khwârizmi in r223. It was afterwards taken by Altamsh. Uch was a great centre of Muhammadan learning ; for in 1227 we find Minhâj-ud-din, the Persian historian, made chief of the Firozi college there. Changes in the courses of the rivers gradually robbed it of its strategic importance; and after many vicissitudes it was permanently annexed to the Mughal empire under Akbar, being included by Abul Fazl among the separate districts of the Sfbah of Multan. Uch is now a group of three villages, built on as many mounds, the débris of successive cities. It is still a place of great religious sanctity in the eyes of Muhammadans, and contains countless shrines, in charge of the Bokhâri and Gil ini Makhdûms, who are descended from its original founders. Sir A. Cunningham compiled an interesting but unreliable account of Alexander's operations in the country round Uch. [A. Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India, pp. 242-8.] Uchad.-Petty State in REwA KANTHA, Bombay. Udaipur State (1).-Tributary State in the Central Provinces, lying between 220 3' and 22° 47' N. and 83° 2' and 83° 48' E., with an