Kamalia

Kamalia (Urdu:کمالیہ) is a city and tehsil of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It is part of Toba Tek Singh District, which is part of the erstwhile Faisalabad Division.

History

Kamalia was a town in the district and tehsil of Montgomery, Punjab, situated in 30°43'N and 72°40'E, 27 miles west of Montgomery town, and 14 miles from Chichawatni station on the North-Western Railway. The town was founded by a Kharral chief named Khan Kamal in the fourteenth century. In the Indian Rebellion of 1857, it was one of the sites of an uprising by the local people, who held it for a week. It had a populatation of 6976 in 1901. It was identified byCunningham as one of the towns taken by Alexander the Great in 325BC

Crops

Major crops of the town are wheat, grain, peas, and barley are the important crops of Rabi season, while Kharif crops are cotton, sugarcane, jawar, bajra, oil seeds which are shipped by rail and road to other parts of the country.

Administration

The tehsil of Kamalia is administratively subdivided into 26 Union Councils, 6 of which from the city Kamalia including Beroon Kamalia.