Talk:Attock

Updated (History Section)
Hi guyz, this is Ali. Hope Gulfam and others from Attock already know me. Done alot work on Attock including websites etc. and now these days working on history of Attock. I might change History section time to time. Just added 3 Paragraph in History section which I confirmed from books in Attock's District Library. If you have more questions you can contact gulfam or me at mrattock@gmail.com thank you

Plus: I dont feel like having lots of related articles to this page but related to ATTOCK only ... what do you think ... other editors may change them.

For All Editors (From Gulfam)
Hey please provide correct and nice information about Attock here. and please do remain in my contact. (Gulfam- gulfamthegreat@yahoo.com)

There are many kashmiri people living in Attock since 19th century Mir Haider Ali Khan (talk) 11:58, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

There are two places named Attock
One of them is the city Attock, which is the seat of the district and tehsil Attock and another smaller place also called Attock (or sometimes smaller Attock) where the fort is actually located. Could someone provide further information regarding this and create two different entries for the two places. I do not know much about the smaller Attock, though I've been there a couple of times. Samaller Attock which is actualy the Attock town on Indus river and the Mughal king Akbar Fort is also their.the city Attock is made by sir camblepor in 19th cetury.
 * I have created a page for Attock Khurd Rzafar

Cleanup started
I have started a cleanup of the article. Dont know much facts about the district or the city but have removed unecessary formating and links. The article also merges the detail about the old Attock Khurd town in a better way. --Webkami 10:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC) www.behboodi.net attock community website —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.193.249.155 (talk) 00:01, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Attock Fort
A good photograph of Attock Fort would add a lot, and enhance the appearance of this article.Fconaway 23:28, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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recapture of ATTOCK fort!!!!
its a myth that Afghans retook the attock fort from Maratha, Maratha dont have the human resource to manage an empire which stretch from Bangladesh to Attock and Peshawar, reading the full history will tell that what blunder Maratha do, after defeating the Afghans the local Muslim generals pledge their support to Maratha because of no regiment to protect the fort they agree to hand over these forts to Another Muslim empire known as Mughal empire(hope you know), Maratha handed all these areas to Adina Beg Khan for 75 lacs rupees he was Governor of Mughal in Punjab before Afghans defeated Mughals but when Ahmad shah return declaring jihad all these muslims change their party and afghans reached delhi without any resistance and that too with many of their muslim indian allies in which they badly outnumber Marathas. This dont means afghans retook the fort from Maratha, maratha general call Rehman Khan(he was hindu born to a muslim mother) from Pune , he was made Maratha viceroy but main generals Rahunath rao and holkar return to Pune. Shail kalp (talk) 13:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Map image breaches policy & has been removed
There is currently a deletion discussion taking place at Commons regarding File:Map on Dialects Of Punjabi Language.jpg, which can be viewed. Regardless of whether the map image is deleted at Commons, I think that it needs to be removed from all English Wikipedia articles because it breaches our synthesis policy. The image creator has provided a long list of sources in the deletion discussion and it is evident from those that none contain all of the information shown in the image, nor is it a simple task to work out which bits of information were gleaned from which source(s). We simply do not permit people to aggregate information in this way. It should also be noted that the chances are very high that the various sources did not even adopt the same methodology in compiling their data, which makes the analysis of the creator even more suspect. I have removed the image because the Commons discussion may end up as something other than "delete" and yet the thing is still invalid on English Wikipedia. - Sitush (talk) 21:37, 19 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Map was deleted on two reasons. 1... Commons deletion discussion but now Deletion request by Sitush has been rejected on Wikimedia Commons. 2... Sitush has a self perception that map is synthesis, which is actually not because it is based on latest research of 2007 in the Publication named 'The Indo-Aryan Languages' by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain. So I am re inserting it. Unless Sitush prove it again as a synthesis and refer me the areas of map being synthesized also mentioning the different publications along with page numbers where from in his kind opinion I have synthesized the map.Maria0333 (talk) 08:22, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Sources for article expansion
See also Attock in the 9th edition EB. — LlywelynII  03:09, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

CAMPBELLPUR (KAMILPUR) ---NAMING THEORIES
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•	 Campbellpur is mentioned first time in current books / record in 1854 (1) According to Imperial Gazette of India it takes its name from Kamilpur Syedan, a small adjacent village (2,3) Campbellpur does not trace to anyone named Campbell (4). It is the English pronunciation of the local village of Kamilpur Syedan In 1854 Campbellpore was a non-entity .It did not deserve a brand new name. Therefore British simply anglicized the existing name. In 1857 kutcha barracks were built by at Campbeellpore Lieutenant Taylor of the Bengal Engineers at the cost of 3000 Rs for 50 European soldiers (5)Owners of village Kamilpur Syedan  gifted 26 acres and sold 160 acres of land, for  Campbellpore Cantt(6) The widely accepted view of tracing Campbellpur to Sir Colin Campbell is based on two-line sentence of George Dodd (7) “Wishing to obtain a healthy military station west of the Indus the brigadier in command laid the foundation of Campbellpore a station named in honor of the commander in chief “

This naming theory is baseless 1)   It appears that George Dodd a writer never visited India. He has no idea of location of Campbellpur. He places it west of Indus whereas Campbellpur is 10 kilometer east of Indus. 2)   First mention of Campbellpur is in record is in 1854(1).Campbell became Commander in Chief in 1857.This is very unlikely that the town was named after him in 1854 before his becoming C in C. Brigadier Colin Campbell   ( Later  Field Marshal) (1792-1863) fought Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1849, under Sir Hugh Gough. Campbell returned home in 1853 and commanded a Brigade in Crimean War in 1854.In 1857 he was made the commander of British forces in India .He left England and reached Calcutta in August 1857 3)  This naming theory has not been shared by any other authenticated official record or independent book 4)   This theory has gained favor recently due to copy/cut and paste practice

References- CAMPBELLPUR (KAMILPUR) ---NAMING THEORIES 1.	General Report of the Administration of the Punjab for the Years 1849, 50 &51 -Chronicle Press Lahore 1854 2.	 Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 9. Oxford [1909] 3.	Imperial Gazetteer of India ---Provincial Series (Punjab  Vol. II) ---1908 4.	 Hindu World: An Encyclopedic Survey of Hinduism-Benjamin Walker – 1968 5.	Nine Years on the North-west Frontier of India from 1854 to 1863 by Sir Sydney Cotton 6.	 History of MES of Pakistan -- Engineer in Chief Branch GHQ Rawalpindi 1991 7.	 The history of the Indian revolt by George Dodd   London, Edinburgh 1859  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DR ABDUS SALAM (talk • contribs) 14:07, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Campbellpur Railway Station Dr Abdus Salam –salampindi@gmail/com
	Haji Shah Railway Purana Station- In October 1878 the 123 Km long Jhelum-Rawalpindi section was opened and train reached Rawalpindi (1).In January 1881 Rawalpindi to Haji Shah Railway was completed(2,3).. This is called Purana Station in local language. Campbellpur cantt was 4 miles south of Haji Shah Railway station. Haji Shah Village was one mile from the railway station (4) Punjab Northern State Railway was operating in this area. Haji Shah old railway station remained functional for 18 years from 1881 to 1889 	Khairabad Kund to Peshawar Railway was completed in May 1882(2).There was no railway bridge on Indus .Passengers used to leave the train at HAJI SHAH cross the bridge of boats  at Attock— or in the months of June, July, and August, the ferry — and re-enter the train for Peshawar at Khairabad. (4) 	Haji shah to Attock bridge 5 miles railway line was completed in May 1881(2,5)Attock Railway Bridge opened for traffic on 24th May 1883(1). 	Attock Bridge to Khairabad Section of 3 miles length, was opened on 31st May 1883(6) 	Sanjwal - Attock City - Rumian section --Original alignment of the North-WesternRailway was altered in 1899, so as to pass through Campbellpur (7)18 Km long section between  between Sanjwal and Attock City to Rumian section was opened in 1899(1). 	Campbellpur Railway station Haji Shah old railway station remained functional for 18 years from 1881 to 1889.Campbellpur Railway station was opened in 1899. 	Basal - Campbellpur section of 31 Km length was opened in 1899(1) 	Kala Chitta Tunnels--.Basal -Campbellpur railway line passes through kala citta range. There are 11 tunnels. Work on this line progressed from the south to the north as shown by the numbering of tunnels. •	The number 11 tunnel was completed in 1898 and is the north most. It lies near Kanjur. •	Number 8 tunnel is the longest having  541 meters length. Jhalar railway station on the south side of No. 8(8) References 1	Chronology of Pakistan Railway 2	Sessional Papers - Volume 73 -   Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1902 – 3	 Cook's Indian tours ... Programme of Cook's new system of international travelling ticket –1881 4	The Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: -David Ross – London- 1883 - ‎ 5	Report On The Administration Of The Punjab.Lahore - 1882 6	 N.-W.F. Province Gazetteers - Volume 6, Part 1 7	Punjab District Gazetteers  (1932 ) 8	 My shortest train journey by Salman Rashid The news June 2009  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.32.193.159 (talk) 13:59, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

CAMPBELLPUR (KAMILPUR) ---NAMING THEORIES Dr Abdus salam  salampindi@gmail.com
Campbellpur is mentioned first time in current books / record in 1854 (1) According to Imperial Gazette of India it takes its name from Kamilpur Syedan, a small adjacent village (2,3) Campbellpur does not trace to anyone named Campbell (4). It is the English pronunciation of the local village of Kamilpur Syedan In 1854 Campbellpore was a non-entity .It did not deserve a brand new name. Therefore British simply anglicized the existing name. In 1857 kutcha barracks were built by at Campbeellpore by Lieutenant Taylor of the Bengal Engineers at the cost of 3000 Rs for 50 European soldiers (5)Owners of village Kamilpur Syedan  gifted 26 acres and sold 160 acres of land, for  Campbellpore Cantt(6) The widely accepted view of tracing Campbellpur to Sir Colin Campbell is based on two-line sentence of George Dodd (7) “Wishing to obtain a healthy military station west of the Indus the brigadier in command laid the foundation of Campbellpore a station named in honor of the commander in chief “

This naming theory is baseless 1)   It appears that George Dodd a writer never visited India. He has no idea of location of Campbellpur. He places it west of Indus whereas Campbellpur is 10 kilometer east of Indus. 2)   First mention of Campbellpur is in record is in 1854(1).Campbell became Commander in Chief in 1857.This is very unlikely that the town was named after him in 1854 before his becoming C in C. Brigadier Colin Campbell   ( Later  Field Marshal) (1792-1863) fought Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1849, under Sir Hugh Gough. Campbell returned home in 1853 and commanded a Brigade in Crimean War in 1854.In 1857 he was made the commander of British forces in India .He left England and reached Calcutta in August 1857 3)  This naming theory has not been shared by any other authenticated official record or independent book 4)   This theory has gained favor recently due to copy/cut and paste practice

References- CAMPBELLPUR (KAMILPUR) ---NAMING THEORIES 1.	General Report of the Administration of the Punjab for the Years 1849, 50 &51 -Chronicle Press Lahore 1854 2.	 Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 9. Oxford [1909] 3.	Imperial Gazetteer of India ---Provincial Series (Punjab  Vol. II) ---1908 4.	 Hindu World: An Encyclopedic Survey of Hinduism-Benjamin Walker – 1968 5.	Nine Years on the North-west Frontier of India from 1854 to 1863 by Sir Sydney Cotton 6.	 History of MES of Pakistan -- Engineer in Chief Branch GHQ Rawalpindi 1991 7.	 The history of the Indian revolt by George Dodd   London, Edinburgh 1859  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.32.193.159 (talk) 14:06, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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History section
This city was founded by the British, but the history section is written to make it sound like an ancient city. Most of this history section should be moved to Attock Khurd, which is the historic city.Willard84 (talk) 23:17, 3 March 2018 (UTC)