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
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 exclu ...
are almost all Muslims.
Notable people with this surname include:
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Dalip Kaur Tiwana (born 1935), Indian writer.
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Harpal Tiwana (born 1935), Indian playwright.
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Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana (died 1848), Punjabi landowner and politician during the Sikh Empire.
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Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana (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 philanthropist.
* Sukhvir Singh Tiwana (born 1965), Indian advocate.
References
See also
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Hassanpur Tiwana, the Union Council of the Khushab District of Punjab in Pakistan
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Mitha Tiwana, a municipal committee in the Khushab District of Punjab in Pakistan
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