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''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. ''

Capital of the Patiala State, Punjab, situated in
30 20' N. and 76 28' E., on the west bank of the Patiala stream,
34 miles west of Ambala cantonment, and on the Rajpura-Bhatinda
branch of the North-Wesstern Railway. It is also connected with Nabha
and Rawgrur by metalled roads. Population (1901), 53,545.

After the fall of Sirhind in 1763, Raja Ala Singh built a masonry fort
on the site of Patiala, then a perty village, from the customs dues
collected at Sirhind. The inhabitants of Sirhind migrated in large
numbers to Patiala, which has ever been the capital of the chiefs
of the State. It is the centre of a considerable local trade, many
articles of luxury being manufactured in it. It contains a State work-
shop. The old palace is in the middle of the town, which is not
unpicturesque, the bazars being wide and straight, though the side
streets are narrow and crooked. The environs of the town are, how-
ever, beautifully lald out with gardens and shady roads, among which
are the numerous public buildings and residences of the Maharaja and
his officials. Of the former, the Mohindar College, the Rajindar
Victoria Diamond Jubilee Library, the Rajindar Hospital, the Baradari
or royal residence, the Moti Bagh, or * pearl garden,' and the Victoria
Memorial Poorhouse deserve mention. The rawitation of the town
is efficient ; but owing to its low-lying situation it is subject to heavy
floods, which occasionally do much damage to its buildings, and cause
malarial fevers in the autumn months. A municipality has recently
been established. The town contains the Sadr and Lady Dufferin
Hospitals, and the Lady Curzon Training School for midwives and
nurses, opened in 1906. The Victoria Girls' School was opened in
the same year.