Hajiwah
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Hajiwah
Estate in the Mailsi tahsil of Multan District, Punjab, owned by the Khakwani flimily of Multan, with an area of 94 square miles. Deriving its name from Khakar, a village near Herat, or from an adventure in hunting the boar {khok), the family first appeared in Multan as companions of Htunayun. A member of it. All Muhammad Khan, became sTihaJidar of the province under Ahmad Shah Durrani, but was deposed in 1767. Under Muzaffar Khan, Haji All Muhammad Khan, a cadet of the family, was governor of Sikandar- abad ; and his son Mustafa Khiin, one of Sawan Mai's kardixrs.
supported the British during Mfilraj's rebellion, and as taJis'iIdar of Mailsi rendered good service in the Mutiny. For this he received large grants of land. He also held a lease of the waste lands in the east of the Mailsi tahsll, and to irrigate these constructed the Hajiwah canal, which, after his death in 1869, was completed by his son Ghulam Kadir Khan. In 1880, 60,000 acres of land irrigated by the canal were conferred on the latter in proprietary right, and this grant was confirmed by deed in 1886. Under a clause in the deed Government took over the canal in 1888 ; but after litigation on this point, it was held by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1901 that the sons of Ghulam Kadir Khan were entitled to proprietary rights in the canal. Its management, however, is still in the hands of Government. The present holders of the estate, Muhammad Yar Khan, Ahmad Yar Khan, Hafiz Khuda Bakhsh Khan, and Hafiz Hamid Yar Khan, succeeded in 1888.
