Ganji Bar
Ganji Bar is the lower valley region from the old flow of the rivers Satluj and river Beas or river Hakra to river Ravi in Punjab, Pakistan. There was a high ridge in the middle of Montgomery, Sahiwal District, old Gogaira district. This high land runs from northeast to southwest. it was also called Dhaya. Dhaya is a term applied to a slope to the top of the ridge from the low lands at foot. This ridge occupied the middle part of the area and its top was called Ganji Bar. The soul of the ridge was inferior and saline. But on the other hand, it was a view that with a plentiful supply of water and good cultivation the greater position of the land could be brought to bear fair crops. Ganji Bar was the only Bar for its elevated situation, the aridest and naturally barren portion of the Bari Doab. But it was a fact that all this Jungle of Bar was composed of good quality soil which only requires irrigation to produce many crops. Ravi Bar was a dense forest. It is 40 miles from Chatuchak, a village in Gogaira, to Harappa. This entire portion is called Ganji Bar.
Etymology
Ganji Bar was the only famous bar of Bari Doab. Ravi and Bias Bar are the Bars that are not discussed by the local researchers. Ganji Bar begins from the Twin Bridge, a stop before Akhterabad town on Lahore- Multan road. According to Dr. Harkerat Singh, there is a ridge of 7 to 8 miles in width in the middle of Bar. It is uncultivated, it looks like a barren land. Karer is the plant mostly found here. This is in the middle of Bar and goes from east to the south throughout the Bar. This was the reason, it is called Ganji bar as it has a head without cultivation like a human head without hair. This way it is called Ganji Bar.But another scholar called it Ganji as it is a word derived from the Persian word Ganj which means treasure. According to him, this tract of land was very rich, only waiting for proper sources of water. As the British made settlement here in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, it became the food basket of India. It was a land rich in cotton crop. So it was named Ganji Bar. This opinion is more reliable as it tells the real meanings of Ganji.
Satgarah
Another place in Ganji Bar is Satgarah. It is also described in 'Ain-Akbari'. It was a projecting point of the high bank which marks the limits of widening of the Ravi on the east. The name means seven castles, but these no longer exist. There is an old brick fort and several isolated mounds. Which marks the site of an ancient city. This old city of Ganji Bar was the center of politics during Mughal rule. Sardar Mir Chakar Rind made it the capital of his rule in this area. Mughal emperor Humayun got refuge here.Important personalities
The formidable Mallians of Sandal and Ganji Bars ferociously fought Alexander, on his way back home, along the river Ravi. Alexander himself was struck with a near-fatal arrow by the Mallians in Multan.File:Ahmad Khan Kharral Tomb.jpg|thumb|274x274px|Tomb of Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal in Jhamra
The Ganji Bar was home to Rai Ahmed Khan Kharal who fought the British colonialists in the 19th century.
Baba Farid, Sufi saint, the pioneer of the Punjabi literary tradition, after shifting from royalty-infested Delhi to Pakpattan lived on the borders of Nili and Ganji Bars. He, in his couplets, employs a blend of Multani and Lehndi dialects of the Punjabi language.
We find yet another poet, Ali Haidar Multani, whose classical verses carry the spontaneity and sweetness of folk songs.
Mian Mohammad Bakhsh who did not live in Ganji Bar, too, had a fascination for it: ‘deer munching your grass in the Bar beware; the hunter is all set to breathe down your neck'.
Baba Talib Jatoi, a Punjabi language poet from Ganji Bar.