Sir Muhammad Yamin Khan (; born June 1888) CIE was a

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and

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in the period before the

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. Khan served as a parliamentarian and one of the senior most members of the

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. Muhammad Yamin Khan was a close confidant of

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (, ; born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the ...

. He was a member of the working committee of

. He also remained Deputy President of the Indian legislative Council. He also presided over the third "Kamboh Conference" held in

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in 1936. Yamin Khan was prominent in raising the Indianisation debate in the Central Legislatures in which he demanded the admission of increasing numbers of Indians to the officer corps of the British Indian Army. The

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Government recognized him for his outstanding social and legal services by appointing him a Companion of the

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(CIE) in the 1931 Birthday Honours list, and knighting him in the

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list. After the

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in 1947, Khan moved with his family to

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where he soon died. Muhammad Yamin Khan was the second

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member to be knighted, and also was the second Kamboj member of the

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(M.P.). He had also been a member of the Municipal Board of Meerut since 1918 and served it as

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and

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for a long time. The Chairmanship of the

Meerut Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital ...

Municipal Board remained for the first half century of its existence with the Nawab family of the Meerut Kambohs.Leadership and Local Politics: A Study of Meerut District in Uttar Pradesh, 1923-1973, 1979, p 43, Shree Nagesh Jha; Urban Politics in India, 1987, p 69, Mohamed Ahmad Hussain.

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