Kabirwala Tehsil is a subdivision (tehsil

Tehsil

A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

) of Khanewal District

Khanewal District

Khanewal is District of Punjab province in Pakistan. It most widely known for being the host city to the second largest Train Station in Pakistan...

 in the Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. It is administratively subdivided into 34 Union Councils

Union Councils of Pakistan

A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...

, two of which form the tehsil capital Kabirwala

KabirWala

Kabirwala is a town of Khanewal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The town is the headquarters of Kabirwala Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of the district...

.

Major castes

Main castes are Syed, Ganpal, Arain, Qureshi, Shaikh, Hiraj, Siyal, Bandesha, Merali, pahod, Rajput and Sargana.

History

During British rule

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

,
Kabirwala was the northernmost tehsil of Multan District

Multan Division

Multan Division was an administrative division of the Punjab Province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government.-History:Multan Division was created during British Rule in the subcontinent...

, Punjab

Punjab region

The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...

 - the boundaries were larger than today lying between 30°5′ and 30°45′N. and 71°35′ and 72°36′ E., with an area of 1603 square miles (4,151.8 km²). The population in 1901 was 130,507 compared
with 113,412 in 1891. It then contained the town of Tulamba

Tulamba

Tulamba or Tulambah is a small city in Punjab, Pakistan. A native of Tulamba is referred to as a Tulmabvi. It's situated on the eastern edge of the Ravi River, between the cities of Abdul Hakeem and Mian Channu. Earlier it belonged to the district of Multan, but in 1985 Tulamba was included in the...

 (population in 1901 - 2526) and 320 villages, including Kabirwala, the headquarters. The
land revenue and cess

Cess

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es in 1913-4 amounted to 5.2 lakh

Lakh

A lakh is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand . It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and is often used in Indian English.-Usage:...

s. The Ravi

Ravi River

The Ravi is a trans-boundary river flowing through Northwestern India and eastern Pakistan. It is one of the six rivers of the Indus System in Punjab region ....

 runs through the northern portion of the tehsil to its junction with the Chenab

Chenab River

The Chenab River چنRiver' آب) is a major river of Jammu and Kashmir and the Punjab in Pakistan. It forms in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows through the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir into the plains of the Punjab, Pakistan...

 in the north-west corner. The north and west portions were irrigated by the Sidhnai Canal, while the south consisted of uncultivated
Bar jungle.

Famous people

• Har Gobind Khorana, the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine (1968) was born here in 1922.