Muhammad Din Malik
| Muhammad Din Malik | |||||||||
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| Residence | Irrigation Officer, Bahawalpur State, Punjab | ||||||||
| Occupation | explorer | ||||||||
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1909.01.19 proposed by H.A. Rose, seconded by T.A. Joyce
Notes From Elsewhere
... an explorer by the name of Malik Muhammad Din. Not much is known about Malik Muhammad except that, in the first decade of the twentieth century, he was an irrigation officer of the Bahawalpur state and, like Hughes Buller in Baluchistan, also the compiler of the Bahawalpur State Gazetteer. He must, in fact, have explored old mounds while collecting material for the gazeteer. But by the time he began actively corresponding with the Archaeological Survey, Malik Muhammad was not in the vicinity of Bahawalpur; he was the manager of the Mandal estates in Karnal. This was in 1916.
Before that, Malik Muhammad had travelled extensively in Bahawalpur. From our perspective, his most significant traverse was made in the cold season of 1909-10. That was when he explored the area opposite Ahmadpur, down to the extreme south-west corner of the state, with half a dozen desert men who knew every inch of that part of the country ..... [from Finding Forgotten Cities by Nayanjot Lahiri]
Publications
External Publications
Gazetteer of the Bahawalpur State 1904
by Malik Muhammad Din (Author)
