Sir Muhammad Yamin Khan (; born June 1888) CIE was a barrister-at-law,

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and

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in the period before the

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. Khan served as a parliamentarian and one of the senior most members of the

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Biography

Muhammad Yamin Khan was born in 1888 into the prominent Kamboh Nawab family of

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. He was appointed as member of the Municipal Board of Meerut since 1918 and served it as

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and

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for a long time. The Chairmanship of the Meerut Municipal Board remained for the first half century of its existence with the Nawab family of the Meerut Kambohs. The

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Government recognized him for his outstanding social and legal services by appointing him a Companion of the

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(CIE) in the 1931 Birthday Honours list, and knighting him in the 1936 New Year Honours list.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

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(M.P.). He also presided over the third "Kamboh Conference" held in

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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

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. He was a member of the working committee of

. He also remained Deputy President of the Central Legislative Assembly. After the

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in 1947, Khan moved with his family to

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where he soon died.

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