Sutlej passed under British protection, and was generally applied to the
country south of the Sutlej and north of the Delhi territory, bounded on
the E. by the Himalayas, and on the W. by Sirsa district. Before 1846
the greater part of this territory was independent, the chiefs being
subject merely to control from a political officer stationed at Umballa,
and styled the agent of the governor-general for the Cis-Sutlej states.
After the first Sikh War the full administration of the territory became
vested in this officer. In 1849 occurred the annexation of the Punjab,
when the Cis-Sutlej states commissionership, comprising the districts of
Umballa, Ferozepore, Ludhiana, Thanesar and Simla, was incorporated with
the new province. The name continued to be applied to this division
until 1862, when, owing to Ferozepore having been transferred to the
Lahore, and a part of Thanesar to the Delhi division, it ceased to be
appropriate. Since then, the tract remaining has been known as the
Umballa division. Patiala, Jind and Nabha were appointed a separate
political agency in 1901. Excluding Bahawalpur, for which there is no
political agent, and Chamba, the other states are grouped under the
commissioners of Jullunder and Delhi, and the superintendent of the
Simla hill states.

CIST (Gr. [Greek: kiste], Lat. _cista_, a box; cf. Ger. _Kiste_, Welsh
_kistvaen_, stone-coffin, and also the other Eng. form "chest"), in
Greek archaeology, a wicker-work receptacle used in the Eleusinian and
other mysteries to carry the sacred vessels; also, in the archaeology
of prehistoric man, a coffin formed of flat stones placed edgeways with
another flat stone for a cover. The word is also used for a sepulchral
chamber cut in the rock (see COFFIN).

"Cistern," the common term for a water-tank, is a derivation of the same
word (Lat. _cisterna_; cf. "cave" and "cavern").

CISTERCIANS, otherwise GREY or WHITE MONKS (from the colour of the
habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron). In 1098 St Robert,
born of a noble family in Champagne, at first a Benedictine monk, and
then abbot of certain hermits settled at Molesme near Chatillon, being
dissatisfied with the manner of life and observance there, migrated with
twenty of the monks to a swampy place called Citeaux in the diocese of
Chalons, not far from Dijon. Count Odo of Burgundy here built them a
monastery, and they began to live a life of strict observance according
to the le