Local and temporary causes may to some extent have accounted for those disturbances.

An increase in the land revenue demanded in the Rawal Pindi district was very strongly resented.

The regulations issued with regard to the tenure of land in some of the new irrigation colonies were probably unwise and carried out with some harshness.

Famine in the unirrigated tracts, and especially the plague, which had desolated parts of the province, had created much misery and bitterness.

Other and more remote causes of a social and economic character had also been at work.