Jhelum River
The Jhelum (also Jhilam or Bihat) River is the most westerly of the five rivers that traverse Punjab and flow into the Indus River in Pakistan. Ancient Greeks called the river Hydaspes. It arises in the Himalayas some 80 kilometers south of Srinagar, flows northwest through Srinagar and the Vale of Kashmir, and then west and south until it joins with the Chenab. The length is 725 kilometers. The river is famed for its nine old bridges. In Pakistani Punjab the Jhelum is the basis of an extensive irrigation and canal system. In 1901 the Jhelum canal colony was established, with the intention of irrigating 457,000 hectares, and it quickly brought prosperity to the settler-farmers.
Further Reading
Ahmad, Khalid Bashir. (2001) Jhelum, the River through my Backyard. Srinagar, India: Bookman Publishers.
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