CIS-SUTLEJ STATES. Southern part of the Punjab, India. Sikh chiefs south of the Sutlej passed under British protection in 1809 and the name was applied to the country south of the Sutlej and north of the Delhi territory. Before 1846 the greater part was independent, the chiefs being subject merely to control from the agent of the governor-general for the Cis-Sutlej States at Umballa. Af ter the first Sikh War the full administration of the territory became vested in this officer. In 1849 the Punjab was annexed and the Cis-Sutlej States commissionership, comprising Umballa, Ferozepore, Ludhiana, Thanesar and Simla districts, was incorporated with the new province. The name continued to be used until 1862, when, Ferozepore having been transferred to the Lahore, and a part of Thanesar to the Delhi division, it became obsolete.