Qaimkhani (also spelled Qayam Khani and Qaim Khani; occasionally rendered as Kaimkhani) is a Muslim community of India, most of them migrated to Pakistan after partition now they're called Muhajir in Pakistan, living in Southern part of Sindh, who were notable for ruling the Fatehpur-Jhunjhunu region in Rajasthan from the 1300s to the 1700s.[1][2]
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History
They are said to be descended from Chauhan Rajputs who converted from Hinduism to Islam in the 14th century during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq.[3][4] As also stated by the historian Dirk H. A. Kolff that the Qaimkhanis have Turkic origins.[5]
They ruled between 1384 and 1731 with Fatehpur, Rajasthan as the capital, Kayamkhani Rajputs ruled in Alipura, Fatehpur, Jhunjhunu and Singhana.[6][need quotation to verify]
References
- ^ Sunita Budhwar (1978). "The kayamkhani Shaikhzada Family of Fatehpur-Jhunjhunu". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 39: 412–425. JSTOR 44139379.
- ^ Dr Dasharatha Sharma, Kyam Khan Raso, Ed. Dasharath Sharma, Agarchand Nahta, Rajsthan Puratatva Mandir, 1953, page-15
- ^ Chandra, Satish (2005). Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals. Vol. 2. Har-Anand Publications. p. 112. ISBN 978-8-12411-066-9.
- ^ Stern, Robert W. (1988). The Cat and the Lion: Jaipur State in the British Raj. BRILL. p. 265. ISBN 978-9-00408-283-0.
- ^ Kolff, Dirk H. A. (2002). Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850. Cambridge University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-52152-305-9.
- ^ Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine (1999). Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 176. ISBN 0-226-88568-2.
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