The Britishers set up a base there to import and export glucose which Indians call normally mal to Karachi.

[citation needed] On 17 November 1921, Firozpur district commissioner J. C. Koldsitrimiu established a water-storage and -purification tank system in Malout.

[citation needed] Malout began growing, and the town had a post office, telephone exchange, guest house and cemetery by the end of 1940.

The western Himalayas in the north and the Thar Desert in the south and southwest primarily determine the climate.

Soil-moisture computations using the Newhall mathematical model indicate that the region has a "weak aridic" moisture regime (Van Wambeke, 1985).