User:Rajsirocco/draft update for bakloh

History

Bakloh, northeast of Gurdaspur District, Punjab, on the borders of Chamba State, height above sea level, 4584. Population in 1881, 1479, comprising 1300 Hindus, 13 Sikhs, 154 Muhammadans, and 12 others.In 1874, there no telegraph, and the called 4the ‘Goorkhas’ was listed as ‘native infantry’ in the Imperial gazaetteer. acquired to establish a ‘gurkha cantonment’ in 1866, for a rebate of few thousand rupees from annual tribute that the Raja paid.

flora and fauna

Bukloh, a spur dense with of ‘chil’, longleaf pine forests, and deodar cedar was [ Himalayan cedar, or deodar; Sanskrit, Hindi: cedar native to the western Himalayas (Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, occurring at 1,500–3,200 m (4,921–10,499 ft) altitude. It is a large evergreen coniferous tree reaching 40–50 m (131–164 ft) tall, exceptionally 60 m (197 ft) with a trunk up to 3 m (10 ft) in diameter. The leaves are needle-like, mostly 2.5–5 cm long, occasionally up to 7 cm long, slender (1 mm thick), borne singly on long shoots, and in dense clusters of 20-30 on short shoots; they vary from bright green to glaucous blue-green in colour. The female cones are barrel-shaped, 7–13 cm long and 5–9 cm broad, and disintegrate when mature (in 12 months) to release the winged seeds. The male cones are 4–6 cm long, and shed their pollen in autumn.

layout

In the centre of the spur is a small Anglican church, called the Oswald church. On either side of the Oswald Church are a set of near identical Bungalows, Barracks, bazaar , sheds for MT training areas, and temple. The north barrack , and bazaar area, the living area of troops, since 2/4 since its raising in 1886., is called 2/4 lines. South of the church, the area, which was home and depot to ¼ gr, is called ¼ lines, or tytler lines, in memory of the first commandant of the ¼ GR. The officers bunglows, and messes, offices, are on top of the spur, surrounded by hegde rows and flower beds.