Punjab Partition Blog

Jhelum

There's something about Jhelum, its people, its soil that has produced extra ordinary men throughout history. In the Imperial Gazetteer of British India published in 1908, the authors wrote about the "position of Jhelum on the great north-western highway, by which so many conquerors have entered India, from the Greek to the Mughal, has necessarily made it a land of fortresses, and has turned its people into hereditary warriors". Jhelum is where Alexander the Great fought with the Indian King Porus in the Battle of Hydapses in 326 BC. Porus ruled the region between Hydapses (Greek for River Jhelum) and Acesines (Greek for River Chenab). During the early Sikh period, the Rohtas Fort in Jhelum