Qaimkhani

Qaimkhani (also spelled Qayam Khani, Kayamkhani or as Kaimkhani) is a Muslim community originating from India. Most of them migrated to Sindh in Pakistan after the partition of India. They were notable for ruling the Fatehpur and Jhunjhunu regions of Rajasthan from the 1300s to the 1700s.

Qaimkhanis claim to have descended from Chauhan Rajputs who converted from Hinduism to Islam in the 14th century during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq. They ruled between 1384 and 1731 with Fatehpur, Rajasthan as their capital; their territories included Fatehpur, Jhunjhunu and Singhana.

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  1. ↑ Sunita Budhwar (1978). "The Qayamkhani Shaikhzada Family of Fatehpur-Jhunjhunu". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 39: 412–425. JSTOR 44139379.
  2. ↑ Chandra, Satish (2005). Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals. Vol. 2. Har-Anand Publications. p. 112. ISBN 978-8-12411-066-9.
  3. ↑ Stern, Robert W. (1988). The Cat and the Lion: Jaipur State in the British Raj. Brill. p. 265. ISBN 978-9-00408-283-0.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine (1999). Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 176. ISBN 0-226-88568-2. By 1731, when the victories of Shardul Singh over the Qaimkhani nawabs (who had been the masters of Fatehpur, Jhunjhunu, and Singhana since 1384) ensured Shekhavat dominance over the region, it had already been broken up into a patchwork of chiefdoms, fiefs, and estates.

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