LAKKHI MALL, DIWAN

LAKKHI MALL, DIWAN (d. 1844), an official of the Lahore Government in the Indus territories, which included Dera Ismail Khan, annexed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1836. Lakkhi Mall`s charge also included Bannu which the Sikhs had occupied in 1825. In January 1844 Diwan Lakkhi Mall led an expedition against Fateh Khan Tiwana, an important chief in the neighbourhood of Bannu Torik region. He captured Torik from where Fateh Khan Tiwana had fled. Lakkhi Mall died in March 1844 and was succeeded by his son Diwan Daulat Rai.

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3. Hasrat, Bikrama Jit, Life and Times of Rnnjit Singh. Hoshiarpur, 1977