DERAJAT', the fluvial portion of Daman (q.v.), itself a comparatively narrow strip in the Punjab, between the Suliman mountains and the Indus, and which, when duly irrigated, is singularly fertile. D. is so called from dera, a camp, a common element in the names of its towns—Dera been Punah,. Dera Futti Khan, Dera Ghazee Khan, and Dera Ismail Khan. It is divided into three districts, and has an area of 12,565 sq.m., and a pop. of 991,251. Dera Deen Punah, apparently the least considerable of the above towns, has suffered much from physical causes, having, in 1819, been nearly destroyed by an earthquake and by a simultaneous flood from the Suliman mountains. —Dera Futti Khan is the center of a district which produces cotton, grain of various kinds, indigo, sugar, and opium. Pop. 5,000.—Dera Gliazee Khan occupies, for com mercial purposes, it very favorable position—the intersection of the two great routes of the country between n. and s., and between e. and west. Hence it has been recom
mended as the best site for an annual fair, so as to suit at once Snide, the Punjab, Afghanistan, I3eloochistan, and Kliorassan. It manufactures cotton, silk, and steel, and has an extensive bazaar. Pop. 17,164.—Dera Ismail Khan is of recent origin, another town of the same name havino. been swept away by an inundation of the Indus. It stands on the thoroughfare already mentioned between n. and s., commanding also two ferries across the river. To this position it is indebted for a thriving trade, and in spring particularly it is crowded by the Lohani Afghans, an enterprising tribe of pasto ral peddlers. Pop. 24.906.—Besides the towns already described, D. has Isa Khel, a town with (1872) 17,746 inhabitants; and the important commercial town of Lein (q.v.).