Qaimkhani: Difference between revisions

| jati = [[Rajput]]

| region = [[Sindh region|Sindh]], [[Rajasthan]]

| related = [[Chauhan dynasty]]

'''Qaimkhani''' (also spelled '''Qayam Khani''' and, '''Qaim Khani'''; occasionally renderedor as '''Kaimkhani''') is a [[MuslimRajputMuslim]] community of [[India]],who. Most of them migrated to the southern part of [[Sindh]] in [[Pakistan]] after partition, where they inare called [[Muhajir (Pakistan)|Muhajir]],Kaimkhani. RajputsMuhajir were notable for ruling the [[Fatehpur, Rajasthan|Fatehpur]]- and [[Jhunjhunu]] regionregions inof [[Rajasthan]] from the 1300s to the 1700s.<ref name=Budhwar1978>{{cite journal | title=The kayamkhani Shaikhzada Family of Fatehpur-Jhunjhunu | author= Sunita Budhwar | journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume = 39| year=1978 | pages= 412–425|jstor = 44139379}}</ref><ref>Dr Dasharatha Sharma, Kyam Khan Raso, Ed. Dasharath Sharma, Agarchand Nahta, Rajsthan Puratatva Mandir, 1953, page-15</ref>

They are saidclaime to be descended from [[Chauhan dynasty|Chauhan]] Rajputs who converted from [[Hinduism]] to [[Islam]] in the 14th century during the reign of [[Firuz Shah Tughlaq]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals |volume=2 |first=Satish |last=Chandra |publisher=Har-Anand Publications |year=2005 |page=112 |isbn=978-8-12411-066-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Rm9MC4DDrcC&pg=PA112}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Cat and the Lion: Jaipur State in the British Raj |first=Robert W. |last=Stern |publisher=BRILL |year=1988 |page=265 |isbn=978-9-00408-283-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NK1MhWq-9VkC&pg=PA265}}</ref> As also stated by the historian [[Dirk H. A. Kolff]] that the Qaimkhanis have [[Turkic people|Turkic]] origins.<ref>{{cite book |title=Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850 |first=Dirk H. A. |last=Kolff |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-52152-305-9 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrdiVPsFRYIC&pg=PA57}}</ref>

They ruled between 1384 and 1731 with [[Fatehpur, Rajasthan]] as the capital, [[Rajputs|Kayamkhani Rajputs]]Kayamkhanis ruled in [[Alipura (Madhya Pradesh)|Alipura]], [[Fatehpur Sikri|Fatehpur]], [[Jhunjhunu]] and [[Singhana, Rajasthan|Singhana]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India |first=Catherine |last=Weinberger-Thomas |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1999 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ashesofimmortali0000wein/page/176 176] |isbn=0-226-88568-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/ashesofimmortali0000wein|url-access=registration }}</ref>{{qn|date=January 2018}}