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{{Infobox person
|name = Rana Talia Muhammad Khan 1884-1959
|image =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1884|12|14|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Patiala]], [[Punjab region|Punjab]], [[British Indian Empire]]
|death_date = 1959
|citizenship = {{flagicon|Pakistan}} Pakistani (post-1947) {{flagicon|British India}} British Indian (pre-1947)
|known_for = First Muslim Inspector-General of Police in British India
|occupation = Inspector-General of Police [[Patiala State]] and [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–55)|North West Frontier Province]] and Major in [[Queen Victoria]]'s [[Corps of Guides (India)|Own Corps of Guides]], [[British Indian Army]]
|children = [[Bakhtiar Rana]] (son) Begum Akhtar Sultan (daughter) Dildar Rana (son) Begum Qamar Sultan (daughter) Nisar Rana (son) Begum Riffat (daughter)
}}

Khan Bahadur '''Rana Talia Muhammad Khan''', [[O.B.E.]]<ref name="LG"/> (14 December 1884 – 1959) was the first Muslim Inspector-General of Police in [[British India]], serving as Inspector-General of Police of [[Patiala State]]<ref>''Studies in History'' (Volume 1, Issue 2), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Historical Studies, New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House (1979), p. 231</ref> and the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–55)|North-West Frontier Province]] and a former British Indian Army officer.<ref name="LG"/> He served famously as Superintendent of Police, Kohat and District Officer, Frontier Constabulary, Hangu<ref>J. A. Robinson, ''Notes on Nomad Tribes of Eastern Afghanistan", Gosha-e-Adam'', 1978, p. 187</ref> and, during the Second World War, as a Major in [[Queen Victoria]]'s [[Corps of Guides (India)|Own Corps of Guides]], [[British Indian Army]] (now the [[Guides Cavalry]] in the [[Pakistan Army]]).

== Early life ==

Rana Talia Muhammad Khan was born on 14 December 1884 in a Muslim [[Naroo (Rajput tribe)|Naru]] [[Rajput]] family in [[Patiala]], [[Punjab region|Punjab]], [[British Indian Empire]].

== Police career ==

Rana Talia Muhammad Khan joined the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]] (commonly known as the Imperial Civil Service (ICS) or British India Civil Service) as Deputy Superintendent of Police.

A famous incident in his life, whilst serving as Superintendent of Police, Kohat, became the basis of a story in [[M. M. Kaye]]'s novel, ''[[The Far Pavilions]]'', which was also made into a movie. The incident is narrated in Victoria Schofield's book ''Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia''.<ref name="Schofield">Schofield, Victoria, ''Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia'', London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2003)</ref> Schofield writes:

:"In February 1923 over forty rifles were stolen from the police station in Kohat. The leader of the gang was Ajab Khan, a known rifle thief and suspected murderer of a British couple three years previously. After careful negotiations and secret meetings on the part of the Superintendent of Police, Rana Talia Muhammad, some rifles were returned. But those remaining with Ajab and his brother Shahzada were not surrendered, so Rana arranged for a raid on Ajab's house. The two brothers were away, but in order to escape the wrath of the British the other men disguised themselves as women; they might have avoided detection but for their large feet which gave them away. The rifles were discovered and to make matters worse, their women jeered at them for having tried to escape the danger by posing as women. (p. 130)<ref name="Schofield"/>

He retired as Inspector-General of Police in 1937.<ref>The India Office and Burma Office List of 1945 (Volume 55), London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1945</ref>

== Military service ==

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Rana Talia Muhammad Khan was called out of retirement by the British Indian Government and made a Major in [[Queen Victoria]]'s [[Corps of Guides (India)|Own Corps of Guides]], [[British Indian Army]].

== Recognition ==

For his meritorious services, Rana Talia Muhammad Khan was conferred the medal and title of "[[Khan Sahib]]" and later "Khan Bahadur" by the British Indian Government.

On 1 January 1945, for his meritorious services, Rana Talia Muhammad Khan, was conferred the title of "Additional Officer of the Military Division" of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) by King [[George VI]].<ref name="LG">{{London Gazette|issue=36866|supp=11|page=12|date=29 December 1944}}</ref>

== Family ==

Rana Talia Muhammad Khan had three sons and three daughters. He was the father of Lieutenant General [[Bakhtiar Rana]], Chief Martial Law Administrator (West Pakistan) and Commander, [[I Corps (Pakistan)|I Corps]], Pakistan Army (1958–66) and father-in-law of [[Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi]], the pre-1947 Indian freedom fighter and post-1947 Pakistani political leader.

== Sources ==

* Schofield, Victoria, ''Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia'', London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2003)
* Schofield, Victoria, ''Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan'', London: Century Hutchinson (1987)
* {{London Gazette|issue=36866|supp=11|page=12|date=29 December 1944}}
* [http://images.rgs.org/imageDetails.aspx?barcode=32915 "C.E. Bruce departure from Kohat (NWFP) in June 1923 - where he was Deputy Commissioner (with police here)"] Royal Geographic Society, 1923, Image number: S0015451

== Notes ==

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[[Category:People of British India]]
[[Category:People from Patiala]]
[[Category:Inspectors general]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]

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