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unusual facts about Sutlej River



Battle of Aliwal

Eventually, the increasingly turbulent Khalsa, the army of the Sikh empire, was goaded into crossing the Sutlej River and invading British territory, under leaders who were distrustful of their own troops.

Sindh Sagar Doab

He named the area between the Sutlej and the Beas as Bist Jalandhar, between the Beas and the Ravi as Doaba Bari, between the Ravi and the Chenab as Doaba Rachna, between the Chenab and the Behat (the river Jehlam) as Chenat and the area between the River Sindh and the Behat as Sindh Sagar Doab.


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Bhimsen Thapa

During his prime ministership, the Gurkha empire had already reached its greatest expanse from Sutlej river in the west to the Teesta river in the east.

Buddha Nullah

Today it has also become a major source of pollution in the region as well the main Sutlej river, as it get polluted after entering the highly populated and industrialized Ludhiana city, turning it into an open drain.

History of Kathmandu

Further west, general Amar Singh Thapa overran lands as far as the Kangra – the strongest fort in the hill region – and laid siege to it (although by 1809, Ranjit Singh the ruler of the Sikh state in the Punjab, had intervened and driven the Nepalese army east of the Sutlej river).

Jaypee Group

Karcham Wangtoo Hydroelectric Plant - is a 1000MW run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station on the Sutlej River in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, India