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Malout is a town, just outside of Muktsar Sahib city in the Muktsar district of the state of Punjab. It is in the southern Punjab "cotton belt", where production per kilometer is one of the highest in India. Malout is on NH-354 and NH-9 and NH-7, which connects Fazilka to New Delhi. The boundaries of Haryana and Rajasthan are and , respectively, from the town. Malout is from the border with Pakistan, and has been affected by military incidents. Malout is also well known for the MIMIT college in which students from all over India comes to pursue UG and PG degrees. Malout Institute of Management and Information Technology (MIMIT), A Government Engineering and Management College in Malout, affiliated to I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, and approved by AICTE.
Malout was founded 400–500 years ago, and the origin of its name is uncertain. In 1917, the British government established the Bathinda–Karachi railway line; the Malout railway station was built the following year. The town was incorporated on 19 March 1920. A seven-member committee purchased land, which was divided into shopping and residential areas.
On 17 November 1921, Firozpur district commissioner J. C. Koldsitrimiu established a water-storage and -purification tank system in Malout. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales, visited the region that day and the system was named in his honour.
Malout began growing, and the town had a post office, telephone exchange, guest house and cemetery by the end of 1940. With cotton producers and the agricultural machinery industry, Malout and its nearby villages were known as the cotton capital of Punjab.
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