Rawalpindi
a town and important military station of the Punjab, India, between the Indus and Jhelum rivers, 160 miles N. W. of Lahore.
There are an arsenal (1883), a fort, a fine public park, and several European churches. The place carries on an active transit trade with Kashmere and Afghanistan. Here the Sikhs surrendered after their defeat at Gujrat (1849), and here too was held, in 1885, a great durbar or review, at which the Ameer of Afghanistan met Earl Dufferin, governorgeneral of India. Pop., district, about 4,500,000; town, about 90,000.