Jump to content

Toba Tek Singh

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 84.191.168.51 (talk) at 14:30, 11 July 2008 (→References). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

For other uses of the name Toba Tek Singh. see Toba Tek Singh (disambiguation).

Template:Pakistani Cities

Toba Tek Singh is a city and tehsil of Toba Tek Singh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 30°58'0N 72°28'60E[1].

History

During British rule Toba Tek Singh was a tehsil of Lyallpur District, the population of the town in 1906 was 1,874[2]

Administration

As well as being a district capital, the city is also the administrative centre of Toba Tek Singh tehsil, one of the three subdivisions of the district - the tehsil itself is composed of 32 Union Councils[3], three of which form the city of Toba Tek Singh.

Sadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu Novelist [4] wrote a short story entitled "Toba Tek Singh" which is a satire on Partition; in the story, an inmate in an asylum frets over the question of whether his home town Toba Tek Singh is now in India or Pakistan. It was adapted into a short movie of the same name [5] directed by Afia Nathaniel [6] in 2005.

References

  1. ^ Location of Toba Tek Singh - Falling rain Genomics
  2. ^ Toba Tek Singh - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 406.
  3. ^ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Toba Tek Singh - Government of Pakistan
  4. ^ Personal.Kent.edu
  5. ^ IMDB.com
  6. ^ IMDB.com

7. CHAK NO 736/G.B

Stub icon

This Punjab, Pakistan location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Toba_Tek_Singh&oldid=225021462"