Umballah
or AMBALA, the chief town of the district and the division of the same name, in Punjab, British India; 120 miles N. N. W. of Delhi. It is a walled town with brick houses, and is an important military station and the railway station for Simla. It was the scene of the great "durbar" of 1869, when Lord Mayo in much state received Shere Ali, the late Ameer of Afghanistan. Pop. about 85,000. The district of Umballah, which lies at the foot of the Himalayas between the Sutlej and Jumna rivers, has an area of 2,621 square miles. The crops are wheat, millets, rice, grain, Indian corn, and barley.