Ahmad Yar Khan Daultana

Mian Ahmad Yar Khan Daultana (13 April 1896 – 1940) was the chief of the Daultanas of Luddan and a politician of the Punjab in British India. He sat in the Punjab legislatures from 1921 onwards, served as secretary of the Unionist Party and as Chief Parliamentary Secretary of the Punjab government, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1939. He was the father of Mumtaz Daultana, later chief minister of West Punjab. No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him; this account is written from the English and Urdu articles and the Wikidata item. ^{1 2 3}

He was born at Luddan on 13 April 1896, the son of Mian Ghulam Kadir Khan. His father died while performing Hajj, and as he was a minor his care fell to his grandfather, who also died soon after; he and his property were then taken under the protection of the government under the Court of Wards. He was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore, where he won four of the school's five medals, including the Rivaz Medal, founded the Chiefs' College Dramatic Club, and left in 1917; he then studied at Government College, Lahore, for one year and nine months. These details rest on a biographical volume published at Lahore in 1937, as the article cites it. ¹

He married and had a son, Mumtaz Daultana, and two daughters, Bibi Mehrafrooz and Bibi Taugir. ¹

In 1921 he was elected unopposed to the first Reformed Council from the Western Multan Mohammadan constituency. He was re-elected in 1926, this time winning a contested election by a majority of 1,835 votes, and in 1930 he was returned as a representative of the Punjab Mohammadan landholders. In the 1937 elections, held under the new constitution, he was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He served as secretary of the Unionist Party and also as Chief Parliamentary Secretary of the Punjab government. ¹

In the 1939 New Year Honours list he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire by George VI. He died in 1940. On his death, Sikandar Hayat Khan addressed a large gathering at Luddan and urged the return of his uncle, Mian Allah Yar Khan Daultana, unopposed to the Punjab Legislative Assembly for the vacancy his death had caused, which was done. ^{1 3}

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