Zira

Zira is a town and a municipal council in Ferozepur district in the Indian state of Punjab. The area of Zira, had been for a long time a no man's land, when in 1508 Ahmad Shah originated from Gugera and established Zira Khas. He was driven out by Sher Shah Suri, amid whose govern almost every one of the towns of this ilaqa were found. Mohar Singh was, thus determined out by Diwan Mohkam Chand, Ranjit Singh's General, and the ilaqa was added to the Lahore Demense.

It was a while later isolated into two parts, of which the eastern bit, which protected the name, Zira, was made over to Sarbuland Khan, a hireling of the Lahore Government, and the western bit, to which the name, ilaqa Ambarhar, was given was made an appanage of Kanwar Sher Singh, child of the Punjab sovereign. At a later date, Sher Singh acquired the ownership of the entire ilaqa and canceled the subdivision of Ambarhar.

Zira was one of the two tehsils of Punjab, the other one being Ferozepur, that was a piece of a contention amid the parcel of India. Sir Cyril Radcliffe made the limit among India and Pakistan only days before the segment. A draft of the Award was as far as anyone knows sent to Evan Jenkins, the commonplace legislative head of Punjab by George Abell, Lord Mountbatten of Burma's private secretary, with a fundamental portrayal of the Punjab limit.