What is Muhammad Hayat Khan?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan | image = Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan c.1860s.jpg | caption = Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan, circa 1860s | title = [[Administrator]] }} '''Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan''', [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]] (1833&ndash;1901), [[Khattar]] was an [[India]]n [[Muslim]] administrator who had a distinguished career in [[British India]]. He belonged to [[Wah]] area of Northern [[Punjab]]. ==Early life and career== Muhammad Hayat Khan was a son of Karam Khan, a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Muslim]] [[Tribal chief|chieftain]] of the [[Khattar]] tribe who was against [[Sikh]] rule in his area and wished to remove it. He thus sided with the [[British]] [[East India Company]] and was killed in 1848. His sons, including Muhammad Hayat, were raised and educated by the [[British Indian]] officers like [[John Nicholson]] and [[James Abbott]]. He was eventually selected to become Nicholson's orderly and [[Persian language]] interpreter. In 1857, when the [[Indian Mutiny]] (or [[First Indian War of Independence]]) broke out, he accompanied Nicholson and his military force to [[Delhi]] to counter the rebels there, who were trying to win over the last [[Mughal]] Emperor [[Bahadur Shah II]], to their cause. ==Career== In September 1857, when John Nicholson was mortally wounded on an assault on Delhi by the British, Muhammad Hayat looked after him until he died.<ref>LG Trotter, ''A Life of John Nicholson, London: John Murray, 1897, p.131, 138</ref> Before dying, Nicholson recommended him to Sir [[John Lawrence]], Chief Commissioner of the Punjab and later its first Governor. Muhammad Hayat was thus given a series of important civil appointments in the Punjab province by the grateful British, and after serving as an Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and then Sessions Judge, he eventually became the first [[Muslim]] native to be appointed as a member of the Punjab Legislative Council.<ref>Charles Allen, ''Soldier-Sahibs:The Men who made the North West Frontier'' London: