Kirana Bar or Gondal Bar (also spelt Karana; ) is the section of the
Bar region
The Baṛ Region, or the Baṛs ()( Punjabi: ; ), are regions in Punjab, now part of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. The area consists of agricultural land that was cleared in the nineteenth century for the then 'new' canal irrigati ...
in western Punjab Punjab in
Pakistan
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located between the rivers
Jhelum
Jhelum (; , ) is a city, located along the western bank of the Jhelum River, in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the 21st largest city in Punjab and 31st largest in Pakistan, by population. Located in northern Punjab, it serves as the capital of the ...
and
Chenab
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.
It comprises the central and southern parts of
Jech Doab
Chaj Doab () is one of the main regions of the Punjab province in Pakistan. Punjab historically has been divided into regions based on its various rivers, since the name Punjab is based on its five main rivers. The Chaj doab includes the area b ...
, and corresponds to the present-day
Mandi Bahauddin
Mandi Bahauddin () is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is also the capital of Mandi Bahauddin District. It is the 41st most populous city in Pakistan, according to the 2017 census. The city is about 220 metres above sea level and is located ...
,
Sargodha
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and
Gujrat districts in
Pakistani Punjab
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.

Kirana Bar is named after
Kirana Hills
The Kirana Hills Site is an extensive rocky mountain range and a reservation of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and nuclear arsenal storage location of Pakistan army, located in the Sargodha District in Punjab, Pakistan.
Known locally as "Black Mo ...
, a mountain range present in the region. It is also known as Gondal Bar, after the Punjabi clan of
Gondals who held the tract in the 18th century.
Since the Gondal families were
Zaildar
Zaildar was an officer in charge of a Zail which was an administrative unit of group of villages during the Sikh Empire, British Indian Empire in Punjab and Dogra dynasty rule in Jammu and Kashmir (princely state). The Settlement Officer, with ...
(at the time of British rule), the first-born son of the
Zaildar
Zaildar was an officer in charge of a Zail which was an administrative unit of group of villages during the Sikh Empire, British Indian Empire in Punjab and Dogra dynasty rule in Jammu and Kashmir (princely state). The Settlement Officer, with ...
was given the title
Sahibzada
Sahib or Saheb () is a term of address originating from Arabic (). As a loanword, ''Sahib'' has passed into several languages, including Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Crimean Tatar, Urdu, Hi ...
.
The lands of the Kirana Bár to the east and south of the hills are of superb quality for agriculture.
[ After slight showers of rain, the whole land is carpeted with grass. Better rain crops are grown here than in the ]Sandal Bar
Sandal Bar (), also known as the Jungle Bar, 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 Faisal ...
. To the west of Kirana and westwards until the villages near the Jhelum river are reached, the bar soil deteriorates, and more and more ''kallar'' (water logging) is found. The Kirana Bár is demarcated from the 'Utar' (North) by the same fall or slope as the Sandal Bar. Generally, this ledge forms the boundary between the villages and the Government waste grounds. But few villages possess lands beyond the high bank, or 'Nakka' as it is called. The flora of this Bár is much the same as that of the Sándal.
See also
* Sandal Bar
Sandal Bar (), also known as the Jungle Bar, 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 Faisal ...
* Mountain ranges of Pakistan
Pakistan is home to many mountains above . Five of the world's fourteen mountains taller than referred as "eight-thousanders" are in Pakistan, four of which are near Concordia, Pakistan, Concordia.
Most of Pakistan's high peaks are located i ...
* List of mountains in Pakistan
Pakistan is home to 108 peaks above 7,000 metres and 4555 above 6,000 m. There is no count of the peaks above 5,000 and 4,000 m. Five of the 14 highest independent peaks in the world (the eight-thousanders) are in Pakistan (four of which lie in ...
References
Landforms of Punjab (Pakistan)
Regions of Punjab, Pakistan
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