Minchinabad
Minchinabad (Urdu: مِنچِن آباد), is a city of Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city is the capital of Minchinabad Tehsil.[1] It underwent rapid development in the late 1860s and 1870s.[2] The city is named after Colonel Charles Minchin, the British Political Agent overseeing the Bahawalpur Princely State from 1866-1876[3]
Minchinabad | |
|---|---|
  Minchinabad Location in Pakistan | |
| Coordinates: 30°10′N 73°34′E | |
| Country |  |
| Province | Punjab |
| District | Bahawalnagar District |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | +6 |
References
- Tehsils & Unions in the District of Bahawalnagar - Government of Pakistan Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Selections from the records of the government of the Punjab and its dependencies. Punjab. 1869. p. 3. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
- Sir William Stevenson Meyer (1908). James Sutherland Cotton; Sir Richard Burn (eds.). Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series. 22. p. 353.
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