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'''Sir Muhammad Yamin Khan''' ({{Langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|محمد یامین خان}}}}; born June 1888)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reed|first1=Stanley|authorlink1=Stanley Reed (British politician)|title=The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950|date=1950|publisher=[[The Times Group|Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd.]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206/page/n734 700]|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206|accessdate=20 February 2018}}</ref> [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] was a [[barrister-at-law]], [[politician|statesman]] and [[politician]] in the period before the [[partition of India]]. Khan served as a [[Member of Parliament|parliamentarian]] and one of the senior most members of the [[All India Muslim League]].

==Biography==
Muhammad Yamin Khan was born in 1888 into the prominent [[Kamboh Nawabs of Meerut|Kamboh Nawab]] family of [[Meerut]].<ref name=Jha/> He was appointed as member of the Municipal Board of Meerut since 1918 and served it as [[Vice-Chairman]] and [[Chairman]] for a long time. The Chairmanship of the [[Meerut Municipal Corporation|Meerut Municipal Board]] remained for the first half century of its existence with the Nawab family of the Meerut Kambohs.<ref name=Jha>{{Cite book
| title=Leadership and local politics : a study of Meerut District in Uttar Pradesh, 1923–1973
| last=Jha |first= Shree Nagesh
| year=1979
| publisher=Popular Prakashan
| language=English
| url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1338028
| access-date=
| via= |pages=41–43
|oclc=1404080683
}}</ref>

The [[British Raj|British]] Government recognized him for his outstanding social and legal services by appointing him a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in the 1931 Birthday Honours list, and knighting him in the [[1936 New Year Honours]] list.<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33722/supplement/3628 London Gazette, 2 June 1931]</ref><ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34238/supplement/2 London Gazette, 31 December 1935]</ref> Muhammad Yamin Khan was the second [[Kamboh]] member to be knighted, and also was the second Kamboh member of the [[Indian Parliament]] (M.P.). He also presided over the third "Kamboh Conference" held in [[Bareilly]] in 1936. Yamin Khan was prominent in raising the Indianisation debate in the Central Legislature in which he demanded the admission of increasing numbers of Indians to the officer corps of the British Indian Army.

Muhammad Yamin Khan was a close confidant of [[Quaid-e-Azam]]. He was a member of the working committee of [[All India Muslim League]]. He also remained Deputy President of the Central Legislative Assembly. After the [[Partition of India|independence]] of [[Pakistan]] in 1947, Khan moved with his family to [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]] where he soon died.

==See also==
*[[Muslim Kamboh]]
*[[Nawab Sir Ziauddin Ahmad]]
*[[Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh]]

==References==
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