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Sampla Tahsil

Tahsil of Rohtak District, Punjab, lying between 

28 35' and 29 i' N. and 76 35' and 76 58' E., with an area of 409 square miles. The population in 1901 was 162,423, compared with 149,818 in 1891. It contains the towns of BAHADURGARH (population, 5,974) and Kharkhauda (3,765); and 122 villages, includ- ing the ' notified area ' of Sampla, its head-quarters. The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to 3-1 lakhs. The greater part of the tahsil is an arid upland plain, the northern portion of which is now watered by the Western Jumna Canal. In the extreme south-east is a small lowland tract, irrigated by countless water-lifts.