Dipalpur

Dipalpur, also spelt Depalpur, is a city in Okara District in the Pakistani province of Punjab, where it served as the headquarters of Depalpur Tehsil. It sits on a bank of the river Ravi about 150 kilometres from the provincial capital Lahore and just west of Kasur District. The fortified town stands on an old Kushan-era site, and tradition credits its founding either to a ruler called Raja Deva Pala or to a Khatri named Bija Chand. Its position on the road to Delhi made it one of the lines of defence against invaders from the north-west; the Mongols were checked here in 1285, Babur recorded taking Dipalpur in 1524, and Akbar stayed here in 1578. Several Sufi saints preached in the area. The 2023 census counted 122,759 people. This entry rests on the English Wikipedia article for the city.