FERO'ZE PORE (so called from its founder, Feroze Toghluk, who reigned in Delhi from 1351 to 1388), in the Punjab, stands about 3 m. from the left or s.e. bank of the Sutlej, in lat. 30° 55' n., and long. 74° 35' east. At one time, a large and important town, as its massive fortifications and extensive ruins still indicate, it had slink into poverty and insignificance before it actually came, in 1835, into the possession of the English. Since then, the place has regained much of its former consequence, holding out, with its wide streets and its colonnaded bazaars, the promise of a grand emporium of commerce. Politically, too, F. P. has become prominent under British supremacy, having been a starting-point, whether for war or for negotiation, in many of our dealings with Afghan istan and the Punjab. In connection with this feature in its history, the city contains a monumental church in honor of the memory of those, both privates and offi cers, who fell in the various conflicts with the Sikhs. The pop. in '68 was 20,592.—The district
of the same name has an estimated area of 2,696 sq.m., and a pop. '68 of 549,253. It is now in part either barren or covered with jungle, but the ruins of towns and villages indicate that it must have been at one time both more fertile and more populous.
FERO'Zi SHAH, a village apparently within the district of Feroze Pore, and situated about 10 m. e.s.e. of the town of that name, is in lat. 30° 52' n., and long. 74° 50' e., lying about 12 m. from the left bank of the Sutlej. It claims notice mainly as the scene of the second in order of the four great battles of the first Sikh war. The conflict in question, which lasted two days, took place in Dec., 1845„ ending in the rout of the natives and the capture of their intrenchments. The British army was commanded by sir Hugh Gough and sir Henry Hardinge; and, as in the victory of Mudki, gained only three days before, it sustained heavy loss.