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'''Malik Sahib Khan Tiwana''' <small>[[Order of the Star of India|CSI]]</small> (died 1879) was a [[Punjabis|Punjabi]] Muslim [[Muslim Rajput|Rajput]] landowner during the [[British India]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Sahib Khan was born into the [[Rajput]] [[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.<ref>Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India, Routledge, 16 Dec 2013</ref> He assisted in disarming the mutiny in [[Jhelum]] and was present at the destruction of the [[Bengal Native Infantry|26th Native Infantry]].<ref>Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India, Routledge, 16 Dec 2013</ref> 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 [[19th Lancers|2nd Mahratta Horse]] at [[Gwalior]].<ref>Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India, Routledge, 16 Dec 2013</ref> 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]].<ref>Tan Tai Yong, The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947, SAGE, 1 May 2005, p.129 </ref> In 1863 he built the first privately built canal on state-leased land in the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]].<ref>Imran Ali, The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947, Princeton University Press, 14 Jul 2014, p.81</ref> His control of both land and water generated immense political and economic influence over his tenants.<ref>Tan Tai Yong, The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947, SAGE, 1 May 2005, p.129 </ref> 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]].<br />
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