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Tiwana Family
Tiwana or Tiwana is a Jatt clan from the Punjab region of India. The Tiwanas in East Punjab are mostly Sikhs, while the Tiwanas of West Punjab are almost all Muslims. Notable people with this surname include: * Dalip Kaur Tiwana (born 1935), Indian writer. * Harpal Tiwana (born 1935), Indian playwright. * Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana (died 1848), Punjabi landowner and politician during the Sikh Empire. * Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana KCSI, OBE ( pa, ; 7 August 1900 – 20 January 1975) was an Indian statesman, army officer, and landowner who served as the prime minister of the Punjab Province of British India between 1942 a ... (1900–1975), Pakistani Muslim military officer and politician. * Justice CS Tiwana (born 1921), legendary judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, author Tiwana Commission Report which exposed police torture in Indian Punjab in the 1980s. * Hardeep Singh Tiwana (born 1960), Indian hotelier and philanthro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jat People
The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and 18th centuries. Quote: "Hiuen Tsang gave the following account of a numerous pastoral-nomadic population in seventh-century Sin-ti (Sind): 'By the side of the river..f Sind along the flat marshy lowlands for some thousand li, there are several hundreds of thousands very great manyfamilies .. hichgive themselves exclusively to tending cattle and from this derive their livelihood. They have no masters, and whether men or women, have neither rich nor poor.' While they were left unnamed by the Chinese pilgrim, these same people of lower Sind were called Jats' or 'Jats of the wastes' by the Arab geographers. The Jats, as 'dromedary me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Punjab
East Punjab (known simply as Punjab from 1950) was a province and later a state of India from 1947 until 1966, consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the province between India and Pakistan by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947. The mostly Muslim western parts of the old Punjab became Pakistan's West Punjab, later renamed as Punjab Province, while the mostly Hindu and Sikh eastern parts went to India. History Partition of India With the partition of the British Indian Empire, the Punjab province was to be divided in two as per the Indian Independence Act passed by the parliament of the United Kingdom. The province as constituted under the Government of India Act 1935 ceased to exist and two new provinces were to be constituted, to be known respectively as West Punjab & East Punjab. The princely states of the Punjab region (which had not been British possessions, so could not be partitioned by the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Punjab
West Punjab ( pnb, ; ur, ) was a province in the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. The province covered an area of 159,344 km2 (61523 sq mi), including much of the current Punjab province and the Islamabad Capital Territory, but excluding the former Princely state of Bahawalpur. The capital was the city of Lahore and the province was composed of four divisions (Lahore, Sargodha, Multan and Rawalpindi). The province was bordered by the princely state of Bahawalpur to the south, the province of Baluchistan to the south-west and Sind to the south, North-West Frontier Province to the northwest, and Azad Kashmir to the north. It shared International border with Indian state of East Punjab and Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir to the east. It acceeded to West Pakistan upon creation of One Unit Scheme. History The creation of Pakistan in 1947 led to the division of the Punjab Province of British India into two new provinces. The largely Sikh and Hindu East Punjab b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Dalip Kaur Tiwana ( 4 May 1935 – 31 January 2020) was one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of contemporary Punjabi literature. She won awards, both regional and national, and was a widely translated author. She retired as Professor of Punjabi, and Dean, from Punjabi University, Patiala. She is widely credited as a tour-de-force in the creation of the contemporary literature in the Punjabi language. Biography Dalip Kaur Tiwana was born on 4 May 1935 in the village of Rabbon in the Ludhiana district of Punjab in a well-to-do land-owning family in British India. She was educated at Patiala, where her uncle, Sardar Sahib Tara Singh Sidhu was Inspector General of Prisons. She had a distinguished academic career. She earned first class honors in the pursuit of her M.A., and then received a PhD degree from the Panjab University, Chandigarh. In 1963, she joined the Punjabi University, Patiala as a Lecturer and then went on to become Professor and Head of the Departm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harpal Tiwana
Harpal Singh Tiwana (8 August 1935 - 19 May 2002) was an Indian playwright and film and theatre director known for his Punjabi-language plays and films. His two ventures into film making '' Long Da Lishkara'' and ''Diva Bale Sari Raat'' became landmarks in Punjabi cinema. He also directed two television productions – ''Sanjhi Deewar'' and an unfinished project on Maharaja Ranjit Singh. His famous plays include ''Sirhind di Deewar''. He established ''Punjab Kala Manch'' at Patiala along with his wife to promote local artists. Both Tiwana and his wife Neena Tiwana are graduates from the National School of Drama. Neena Tiwana and his son Manpal Tiwana are also playing a key role in promoting the theatre in Punjab. He also has a daughter Luna Tiwana. Harpal died in a road accident near Palampur in Himachal Pradesh, on 19 May 2002, was cremated at Badungar cremation ground at Patiala. The ''Harpal Tiwana Foundation'' was set up in his memory after his death. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana
Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana (died 1848) was a Punjabi landowner and politician during the Sikh Empire. Biography Early life He was born to Khuda Yar Khan and a member of the Jat Tiwana family of Shahpur. He was the grandson of Khan Muhammad Khan, the Tiwana chief of Nurpur Tirwana. He was the uncle of Malik Sahib Khan Tiwana. He served General Hari Singh Nalwa who had held the Tiwana jagir of Mitha Tiwana since 1819. He held a command under the General's authority until his death in 1837.Rishi Singh, State Formation and the Establishment of Non-Muslim Hegemony: Post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab, SAGE Publications India, 23 Apr 2015 The following year Prime Minister, Raja Dhyan Singh rewarded him control of Mitha Tiwana and the salt mines to the south of the country. His administration was unsuccessful and he was placed under house arrest by Nau Nihal Singh until arrears were paid. On the death of Nau Nihal Singh, his fortunes rose once again, and he was made Manager of the Kachhi count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana KCSI, OBE ( pa, ; 7 August 1900 – 20 January 1975) was an Indian statesman, army officer, and landowner who served as the prime minister of the Punjab Province of British India between 1942 and 1947. He was a member of the Unionist Party. Early life Khizar was born at Chak Muzaffarabad, in the district of Sargodha, in the Punjab Province of British India in 1900. He was born into the Tiwana family of Shahpur, and his father Sir Umar Hayat Khan was a wealthy landowner and soldier who was an elected member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India. He was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore. Military career At the age of 16, Tiwana volunteered for war service, and on 17 April 1918 he was commissioned into the 17th Cavalry as a temporary honorary second lieutenant in the Indian Land Forces. In addition to his few months of First World War service, Khizar also briefly served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassanpur Tiwana
Hassanpur Tiwana is one of the 51 Union Councils (administrative subdivisions) of Khushab District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar .... References Khushab District {{Khushab-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
