Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Deraját

DERAJÁT, a division or commissionership of British India, under the jurisdiction of the lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, comprising the frontier districts of Dera Ghazi Khan, Derd Ismail Khan, and Bannu, situated between 28 27 0" and 33 15 30" N lat. and 70 15" 0" and 72 3 20" E. long. The division is bounded on the N. by the district of Kohat, on the E. by the districts of Rawal Pindi, Shahpur, and Jhang, and by the River Indus, on the S. by the district of Jacobabad in Sind, and on the W. by the Wazlri and Sulaiman hills, beyond British territory. The two northern districts of the division, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan, are intersected by the Indus. The Bannu valley is drained by the Kuram and Gambila rivers. It is shut in on the N. and S. by hills, and is traversed from N. to S. by a continuation of the great Punjab salt range. According to the census of 1868, the Derajat division comprises an area of 14,432 square miles, with a population of 991,251 souls, inhabiting 1695 villages, classified as follows : Mahometans, 863,464, or 87 1 per cent.; Hindus 113,445, or 11 5 per cent.; Christians, 341; Sikhs, 3204, or 3 per cent.; and "others," 10,797, or 1*1 per cent.