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In 1894, '''Khan Bahadur Raja Saheb Chaudhry Aurangzeb Khan of Chakwal''' was given the title of [[Khan Bahadur]] for his services in establishing the town of [[Faislabad]] (original town name in British India, [[Lyallpur]]).<ref name=Roper/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gcuf.edu.pk/about/the-city-faisalabad/ |title=The City Faisalabad (city history)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424053923/http://gcuf.edu.pk/about/the-city-faisalabad/ |date=23 March 2012|website=Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF) website|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 April 2015|access-date=9 September 2019}}</ref>

==Impact of 19th century canal irrigation==
At the end of the 19th century, [[Chaudhry]] Aurangzeb Khan, assistant colonisation officer for [[Chenab Colony]], proposed the first system of tying land grants in the region to preserving camel population, which was falling at the time due to camel pasturage being converted to crop land via [[Irrigation_in_India#Colonial_era|canal irrigation]]. The British rulers then signed agreements with the indigenous tribes and local people that traditionally used to raise and maintain herds of camels. According to these agreements, these local people were bound to continue providing camels as needed for military duty for the [[British Raj]].<ref name=GoogleBooks/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MgUABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q=Chaudhry%20Aurangzeb%20Khan%20&f=false Chaudhry Aurangzeb Khan on GoogleBooks – The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947 by Imran Ali pages 125, 258] Retrieved 9 September 2019</ref>

Camels, at that time, were considered an important means of military transport in the region.<ref name=GoogleBooks>{{cite book |author=Imran Ali |title=The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947 |year=2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |pages=123-125 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MgUABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 |isbn=9781400859580 }}</ref> [[Munshi]] Aurangzeb Khan was also cited by the Lieutenant-Governor of the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]] for his assistance in work on irrigation projects.<ref>{{cite book |author=Punjab (India). Dept. of Revenue and Agriculture |title=Report on the Land Revenue Administration of the Punjab |year=1895 |publisher=The Civil and Military Gazette Press |location=Lahore |pages=44 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rpg-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA44 |oclc=64252371 }}</ref> The title of Khan Baradur was conferred on him in 1894.<ref name=Roper>{{cite book |author=Roper Lethbridge |title=The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated, of the Indian Empire, with an Appendix for Ceylon |year=1900 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co. |location=London |pages=17 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zykYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17 |oclc=28308344 }}</ref>

==References==
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