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Malik Umar Hayat Khan

Indian soldier and landowner (1874–1944)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Major General Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan Tiwana, was a soldier of the Indian Empire, one of the largest landholders in the Punjab, and an elected member of the Council of State of India.

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“Malik Umar Hayat Khan” enters the record as indian soldier and landowner (1874–1944). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Malik, Umar and Hayat can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Malik Umar Hayat Khan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.