Qaimkhani

kayamkhani or Kaimkhani (also spelled kayam Khani and Kaim Khani) was a Muslim community with a Rajput descent from Hindu Chauhan Rajputs according to Muhnot Nainsi ri Khyat (1661 CE)and Kyam Khan Ras (1634 CE).[1][2]

They converted from Hinduism to Islam in the 14th century during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq.[3][4]

The historian Dirk Kolff has queried whether the Qaimkhani have Turkbachcha origins.[5]

They ruled between 1384 and 1731 with Fatehpur, Rajasthan as the capital, when they were defeated by the Shekhawats, Rajput kayamkhani nawabs ruled in Fatehpur, Jhunjhunu and Singhana.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Muhnot Nainsi ri Khyat part-1, 1925, Ed. Dugad, Ramnarayan, page 199
  2. ↑ Dr Dasharatha Sharma, Kyam Khan Raso, Ed. Dasharath Sharma, Agarchand Nahta, Rajsthan Puratatva Mandir, 1953, page-15
  3. ↑ Chandra, Satish (2005). Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals. 2. Har-Anand Publications. p. 112. ISBN 978-8-12411-066-9.
  4. ↑ Stern, Robert W. (1988). The Cat and the Lion: Jaipur State in the British Raj. BRILL. p. 265. ISBN 978-9-00408-283-0.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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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