Sandal Bar

{{Short description|Region in Punjab, Pakistan}}

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Sandal Bar ({{langx|pa|ساندل بار}}), also known as the Jungle Bar,{{Cite book |last=Latif |first=Syad Muhammad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYIMAQAAMAAJ |title=History of the Punjab from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Time |publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications |year=1997 |isbn=9789693507355 |pages=294}} is the section of the Bar region in western Punjab in Pakistan and is located between the rivers Ravi and Chenab, and comprises the southern part of Rechna Doab. It corresponds to the present-day Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh and Chiniot districts in Pakistani Punjab.{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1112454 |title=Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab|newspaper=Dawn|first=Mushtaq |last=Soofi|date=13 June 2014|access-date=26 May 2023}}

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Sandal Bar is named after Sandal, grandfather of the 16th-century Punjabi chieftain Dulla Bhatti who, according to the popular folklores, led a revolt against the Mughal rule in the Sandal Bar during the reign of Akbar.{{Cite book |chapter=Mughal Centralization and Local Resistance in North-Western India: An Exploration in the Ballad of Dulla Bhatti|last=Singh |first=Surinder |editor-last1=Singh |editor-first1=Surinder |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVA0JAzQJkYC&pg=PA89 |title=Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia |editor-last2=Gaur |editor-first2=Ishwar Dayal |date=2008 |publisher=Pearson Education India |isbn=978-81-317-1358-7 |language=en|pages=89–112}} Until the late-19th century it was sparsely populated, when it was brought under irrigation after the establishment of Chenab Colony (Lyallpur) in 1892.{{Cite book |last=Gilmartin |first=David |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520355538/blood-and-water |title=Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History |date=2015 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-35553-8 |pages=146 |language=en}}