Minchinabad

Place in Punjab, Pakistan

30°10′N 73°34′E / 30.167°N 73.567°E / 30.167; 73.567Country

PakistanProvincePunjabDistrictBahawalnagar DistrictTime zoneUTC+5 (PST) • Summer (DST)+6

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 to 1876^[3]

References

^ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Bahawalnagar - Government of Pakistan Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ Punjab (1869). Selections from the records of the government of the Punjab and its dependencies. Punjab. p. 3. Retrieved 17 March 2011.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Sir William Stevenson Meyer (1908). James Sutherland Cotton; Sir Richard Burn (eds.). Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series. Vol. 22. p. 353.