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Malik Sahib Khan Tiwana

Malik Sahib Khan Tiwana CSI (died 1879) was a Punjabi Muslim Jatt landowner during the British India.

Biography

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Sahib Khan was born into the Jatt Tiwana family of Shahpur, the son of Ahmad Yar Khan Tiwana . On hearing news of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he requested and received permission to raise 200 men of his clan for the service of the Government.[1] He assisted in disarming the mutiny in Jhelum and was present at the destruction of the 26th Native Infantry.[2] He thereafter marched to Hindustan where he assisted at Calpi. So impressed were the British by his Tiwana irregulars, that the detachment was incorporated into the 2nd Mahratta Horse at Gwalior.[3] As a reward for he received a land grant of nearly 9,000 acres in Kalpi, a life jagir worth 1,200 rupees and the title Khan Bahadur.[4] In 1863 he built the first privately built canal on state-leased land in the Punjab.[5] His control of both land and water generated immense political and economic influence over his tenants.[6] He died in 1879 when his son Malik Umar Hayat Khan was still a minor. Malik Sahib Khan Tiwana served in military service as well as in administrative positions. Malik Sahib Khan Tiwana was three times the administrator of Lucky Marwat, which is now a District Headquarter of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The grave of Malik Sahib Khan Tiwana is in Kalra Jhawarian.

References

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  1. ^ Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India, Routledge, 16 Dec 2013
  2. ^ Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India, Routledge, 16 Dec 2013
  3. ^ Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India, Routledge, 16 Dec 2013
  4. ^ Tan Tai Yong, The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947, SAGE, 1 May 2005, p.129
  5. ^ Imran Ali, The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947, Princeton University Press, 14 Jul 2014, p.81
  6. ^ Tan Tai Yong, The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947, SAGE, 1 May 2005, p.129
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