The wonder of Mailsi.The Asia no.1 lib

1. MASOOD Jhandir Research Library
Department of Computer Science & IT
Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus

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PREFACE
The basic objective for writing this report is to provide complete information and guidance for
Library. The idea in our mind was to focus to provide complete history of Masood Jhandir
Library. To fulfill this purpose, we have made survey to the Library and got the history by
Librarian M.Rab-Nawaz. and aslo from Muhammad kamil and Malik Raees Ahmad
This report provides complete history and architecture of the Library. The language of this report
is very simple and easy to understand.
This report will give you complete information of back ground history, design, material, location
and architecture of Library.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We are greatly obliged to” ALLAH Almighty” and his Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).
By the grace of ALLAH we have be able to complete our project successfully.
We like to express special and heartiest thanks to beloved teacher Mam Afsah Imtiaz Elahi, who
made us able to work in this field. And also there encouragement, like guidance, good
suggestions and keen supervision need throughout the whole report.
We are thankful to respectable Librarian M.Rab-Nawaz and Muhammad Kamil & Malik Raees
for devoting their valuable and precious time for our guidance.
In the end we like to pay homage to our lovely parents who bear all the expenses of our studies
in life. We would like to give special thanks to all our teachers who taught us the way of learning
in computer science. In-fact all of them are great teachers, having the art of teaching in Computer
Science and IT.

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Dedication
We dedicate our complete effort to great leader and founder of Masood Jhandir Research Library
“Ghulam Muhammad Choghta”.

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Submitted to:
Mam Afsah Imtiaz Elahi
Submitted by:
 Muhammad Adil
 Ahmad Raza
 Ismail Bashir
 M.Asif
THE STARS GROUP

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Contents
 Introduction
 Location
 Map
 Historical Development of the Library
 Library Building
 Stock of the Library
 Management of the Library
 Services Rendered by the Library
 Membership of the Library
 Award
 Comments by Visitors
 Some Pictures of Library
 Suggestions
 Conclusions

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Introduction
 Malik Ghulam Muhammad Chogatta (1865-1936) a landlord of the area migrated
from Delhi to this area
 He was a great lover of books
 He started a library in 1890 as personal collection

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Location
 Near Thana Miranpur, Mailsi
Distt. Vehari.
 Distance from Thana Miranpur:7 KM
 It is situated in a town Sardar Pur at Mailsi Dunya Pur road
 Its distance
 From Mailsi and Kehror Pacca is twenty kilometers
 From Dunyapur is 25 kilometers
 From 9/L Multan Mailsi road is 15 kilometers
 Sardar Jhandir railway station is 8 kilometers on north side
 80 kilometers away from Multan and
 70 kilometers away form Bahawalpur

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MAP

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Historical Developmentof The Library
 Malik Ghulam Muhammad Chogatta (1865-1936) a landlord of the area
migrated from Delhi to this area
 This library was handed over to his grandson Mian Masood Ahmed Jhandir as
an inheritance according to his will

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 After this Mian Mahmood Ahmed Jhandir and Mian Ghulam Ahmed Jhandir
younger brothers of Mian Masood Ahmed Jhandir joined hands with him in
this noble task
 The library was now called “Masood Jhandir Library” after the name of
elder brother
Library Building
In 1952, The Library was started in a single room.Then it was housed in 25 rooms 1990s
Due to the influx of new material and inadequacy of present building Jhandir brothers have
donated two acres of land for the construction of new library complex This complex provide
facilities In 1952, The Library was started in a single room to house the total stock of books and
periodicals along with cubical rooms for research scholars
• The new library complex had been completed in 2007
• It is built on 21,000 sq. ft. covered area
• It consists of 8 commodious halls, auditorium, committee room, multimedia
workstation, reception hall, office and a hostel
• The library is surrounded by a 5- acre attractive park
• Future plans include construction of digital library and scholar’s hostel, electronics
museum, and formation of a trust for library
Stock of the Library
At present Masood Jhandir Research Library contains
• More than 2,15,000 books
• 118,000 periodicals,
• 4050 manuscripts besides

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• 1153 rare manuscripts copies of Holy Quran
• There are more than 7,000 reference books, nearly on all subjects
• The books are classified according to DDC and are well maintained
• The library is clean and tidy.
• The books are often purchased from local publishers but a large number of books have
been purchased from Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, Europe, and America
• A good number of books were donated by Jhandir relatives of the patrons of the library
Jhandir brothers purchased 15 private library
 The library holdings include books in different languages of the world like
• Urdu
• English
• Persian
• Arabic
• Punjabi

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• Sarariki
• Sindhi
• Pashto
• Balochi
• Esperanto etc.
The Subjects of Library material include
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Religions
• Social Sciences
• Linguistics
• Science and Technology
• Arts
• Agriculture
• Literature
• Biographies and Autobiographies
• History and Geography etc.
The library has a considerable number of national and international journals and periodicals on
religion, literature, politics, medical science, agriculture and other fields
• It is also notable that 4,000 periodicals are in English language
• The library has near about 700 years old rare manuscripts on Islam, philosophy, logic,
medicine, language, poetry, literature, tasawuf, history, and mathematics etc.

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• The library has a 3’-6”X 2’-6” sized unique copy of Holy Quran which consists of ten
chapters, weighing 100 kgs
More over:
• 1.4” X 1.4” sized copies of Holy Quran which are smallest in size and easily readable
• In addition to these there are 600 printed copies of Holy Quran translated in different
languages of the world

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• Manuscripts of Holy Quran are housed with full respect in a separate room naming Riaz-
ul- Quran
• The oldest printed book in the library is “the cause of the decay of piety in Christianity by
Richard Ulstery” It was published in 1679 A.D.
Moreover, different goshas/sections have been established in the names of worthy donors
Their names are Dr. Arash Siddique, Syed Qasim Mahmood, Allama Maztar Abbasi, Prof.
Muzaffar Mahmood Awan, Prof. Aasi Kernali, Prof. Khalid Pervez, Munshi Abdul
Rehman Khan, Sufi Barkat Ali and Mian Mehfooz Ahmed Arain
Management Of The Library
• Mian Masood Ahmed Jhandir
• Mian Ghulam Ahmed Jhandir
• Mian Mahmood Ahmed Jhandir
• Mian Zaka Sardar
• Dr. Muhammad Faisal Masood
• Mian Zia Mahmood Sardar
• Mian Muhammad Haroon Musa
• Prof. Farhana Batool
They are policy makers as well.
Services Rendered By The Library
• The library is catering to the needs of a vast community of both local and foreign scholars
Actually, it is a working place for the post graduate scholars for in-depth research of
Philosophy, Religion, History, Linguistics of Urdu, Arabic, English, Persian and Punjabi
/ Saraiki

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• Because the library is situated in a village far-flung form the city area, therefore, the
scholars are provided residential facilities as well.
• Library opening hours for visitors are7:00am to 11:00am in summer and 9:00am to
12:00noon in winter,
• The library caters the needs of scholars, researchers at 24 hours
• Researchers can do their research work 16 hours daily
• Photocopy facility is not provided by the library
• In alternate to photocopy, the research scholars are required to bring with them a digital
camera of more than 6 mega pixel capacity to get the view of their required material
Membership of the Library
• Only casual membership is allowed
• No dues are charged for membership
• Membership of the library is open to any reader, Pakistani or foreign, who is engaged in
solemn research work and who is doing his Master, M. Phil., Ph. D. and Post-Doctoral
research work
• Books and other items are not lent by the library

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Award
In recognition to the services rendered by the library, the President of Pakistan has
conferred Pakistan civil award “Tamgha-i-Imtiaz” to Mian Ghulam Ahmed Jhandir on
the occasion of Independence Day, 14th August, 2013
Comments By Visitors
Local and foreign worthy intellectuals, literary figures, research scholars, political
leaders, honorable judges, foreign ambassadors and officers who visited the library have assessed
it as light house, great research centre, wonderland, an oasis, an educational charity, kaaba of
learning, beacon, fort of knowledge, an ocean for thirsty researchers, golden ray of hope, an
indispensable institute for research, city of scholars in shape of books, a beautiful Island in sea of
ignorance, a heaven for research scholars, a great seat of learning, treasure house, Khuda Bakhsh
Library of Patna in Pakistan etc. (visitor’s comment books).

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Some Pictures of Library
A side view of library
The view from main entrance

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The view after Rain
The interior view of labirary

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The view of Library Park from roof of library
Interior part of library

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The interior view of library at night
The Masood Jhainder Library

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The Library Shower
View of library park

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Mangment Members
Tamgha-e-Imtaz

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The 1st
No. Private library Award
Suggestions:
• Government should arrange to build such libraries in different cities of the country
• Rich persons should do their efforts to build such libraries
• NGOs should utilize their funds to make such kind of research libraries for the
benefit of common public

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Conclusions
Library was started in a single room with few books. The library belongs to mediocre
land-owners They grow crops and buy books by their income from agricultural farms.
They have collected and preserved religious, cultural, historical, and literary heritage and
upgraded them. It has so far received no funds from government or any other donor
agency/person. The library provides research facilities to the researchers. It is a fact that
library is situated in far flung villager area but the owners of the library provide
residential facilities to the researchers. They keep them as their honorable guests. They
fully entertain them wholeheartedly. Researches do their research work in full peace and
calm Library is promoting research culture in the country. It is a role model for literary
figures, government and NGOs. It has fallen an impact on the visitors in this regard as
mentioned in their comments in visitor’s books.