JULINDER DOOAB, a tract of country in Upper India, lying, as the word Dooab implies, between two rivers,
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which, in this case, are the Beas and the Sutlej. It has an area of about 374 square miles. This territory came into British possession during the earlier operations against the Sikhs, and was permanently retained as a portion of the British dominions under the Treaty of Lahore, concluded in March 1846, whereby the Maharajah of the Punjab ceded to the East India Company, in perpetual sovereignty, all his territory between the Beas and the Sutlej. The tract is situated between the 31st and 33d degrees of N. Latitude.