Jhelum
— — a river city that sends its sons to the army.
Not only on a wall.
“A city in the northern Punjab of Pakistan, set on the west bank of the Jhelum River where the Grand Trunk Road crosses on its way to Rawalpindi. The plain just south is the ground where Alexander defeated Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC. The city has supplied soldiers to the subcontinent's armies for so long it is commonly called the City of Soldiers. Rohtas Fort, the sixteenth-century garrison Sher Shah Suri built to hold the region, sits about sixteen kilometres south-west. Most of what stays with people is the river, and the long bridge at evening. from the studio
Jhelum, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Jhelum is a city in the northern Punjab province of Pakistan, set on the west bank of the Jhelum River about 120 kilometres south-east of Islamabad along the Grand Trunk Road. It is the headquarters of Jhelum District and had a population of roughly 190,000 at the 2017 census, with the wider district counting about 1.2 million. The river here is the westernmost of the five great Punjab rivers and crosses under a long railway bridge built in 1873 by the North Western Railway. The city sits on a low plain that climbs gradually toward the Salt Range to the south-west.
About 16 kilometres south-west of the city stands Rohtas Fort, built between 1541 and 1548 by Sher Shah Suri to hold the Potohar Plateau against the Mughal armies of Humayun. Its walls run about 4 kilometres around and rise to roughly 18 metres, with twelve gates including the famous Sohail Gate. UNESCO inscribed it as a World Heritage Site in 1997. South of Jhelum, near the modern village of Mong, lies the plain associated with the Battle of the Hydaspes, where Alexander of Macedon defeated the Pauravan king Porus in 326 BC after crossing the river under monsoon rain.
Jhelum is reached most easily by road on the M-2 motorway and the older Grand Trunk Road from Islamabad or Lahore; rail service on the main Karachi-Peshawar line stops at Jhelum railway station. The city is also known throughout the region as a recruiting ground for the Pakistan Army and, before partition, the British Indian Army, and is commonly called the City of Soldiers. The river crossing and the bazaars around the railway station are the most-walked parts of town. Most outside visitors come on the way to Rohtas Fort or the Salt Range hill stations beyond it.