Kaimkhani or Qaimkhani is a Muslim Rajput clan that resides in Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 and Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 and Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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History

Kaimkhanis are the descendants of Nawab Kaim Khan

Qaim Khan

Khan-e Jehan Nawab Qaim Khan Shaheed who was the son of Raja Motay Rai Chauhan, the ruler of Dorayra or Dadrewa . The first progenitor of Qaimkhanis was Karamchand born in the family of Moterao of Chauhan clan, the ruler of Dadrewa. Firuz Shah Tughluq converted him to Islam and named him Qaimkhan...

, born Karamchand, the son of Raja Motay Rai Chauhan, the ruler of Dorayra or Dadrewa

Dadrewa

Dadrewa is a village situated in Churu district of Rajasthan, India. The village is situated on the Hissar-Bikaner Highway in between Sadulpur and Taranagar. It was the ancient capital of Chauhan Rulers. The famous Gogaji Pir, was also born at Dadrewa. This was also ruled by Punias and Kaimkhanis....

 (presently situated in the Churu

Churu

Churu is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...

 district of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

). Karamchand and his bothers were converted to Islam by Firuz Shah Tughlaq who named him Kaim Khan , and his brothers Zainuddin Khan and Zabaruddin nawab Zainuddin Khan son Pahryan Khan. The term Kaimkhanis or qaim khanis applies not only to the descedants of Kaim Khan but also to the descendants of his brothers. Kaim Khan become an Ameer of the Delhi Sultanate

Delhi Sultanate

The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived, Delhi based kingdoms or sultanates, of Turkic origin in medieval India. The sultanates ruled from Delhi between 1206 and 1526, when the last was replaced by the Mughal dynasty...

. Tuzk-e-Mehboobia of Sultan-e-Deccan Mir Mehboob Ali Khan mentions:

Nawab Kaim Khan embraced Islam in 754 Hijra. In 760 Hijra, Sultan Feroz Shah appointed him the Governor of Hisar Ferozah with the title of Khan-e-Jehan.

Nawab Kaim Khan continued as the Governor of Hisar in the times of Muhammad bin Tughluq

Muhammad bin Tughluq

Muhammad bin Tughluq was the Turkic Sultan of Delhi from 1325 to 1351. He was the eldest son of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq.He was born in Kotla Tolay Khan in Multan. His wife was daughter of the raja of Dipalpur...

 and Khizr Khan. Khizr Khan defeated Daulat Khan Lodhi

Daulat Khan Lodhi

Daulat Khan Lodi was the governor of Lahore during the reign of Ibrahim Lodi, the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty. Due to disaffection with Ibrahim, Daulat invited Babur to invade the kingdom.-Background:...

, who was at the helm of the Delhi Sultanate for a year and three months, and imprisoned him under Kaim Khan at Hisar Ferozah. Later Khizr Khan developed differences with Kaim Khan. Khizr Khan was on a military campaign when he received the information that Ameers Kaim Khan, Ikhtiar Khan, and former members belonging to the court of Sultan Mahmud Shah Tughlaq were planning to dethrone him. Khizr Khan left the campaign and while returning to Delhi, invited Nawab Kaim Khan and the others to a meeting held on the banks of Jumna where they were murdered on 20th Jamadi-ul-Awal, 822 Hijra. Tareekh-e-Farishta and Tarik-e-Tabqat-e-Akbari also corroborate this incident. It is believed that Kaim's body was then thrown in the river Jumna as his burial place is not mentioned in history. Khizr Khan went on to establish the Sayyid dynasty

Sayyid dynasty

The Sayyid dynasty ruled Delhi sultanate in India from 1414 to 1451. They succeeded the Tughlaq dynasty and ruled that sultanate until they were displaced by the Lodi dynasty.This family claimed to be Sayyids, or descendants of Prophet Muhammad...

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Nawab Kaim Khan had six sons, named Muhammad Khan, Taj Khan, Quttab Khan, Mohan Khan, Ikhtiar Khan, and Wahid Khan. During the life of the Nawab, Muhammad Khan lived in Hisar while Taj Khan and Quttub Khan ruled Tussam in Punjab

Punjab region

The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...

. Mohan Khan and Ikhtiar Khan were the rulers of Fatehabad

Fatehabad

Fatehabad may refer to:* Fatehabad, Afghanistan* Fatehabad, Haryana a town in Haryana, India* Fatehabad district, a district in Haryana, India* Fatehabad, Madhya Pradesh, a city in Madhya Pradesh, India* Fatehabad, Agra, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India...

 and Dhosi.

After the death of their father at the hands of Khizr Khan, they dispersed and chose to avoid confrontation with Hakim-e-Delhi (ruling power in Delhi). Taj Khan later became the Nawab of Hisar, ruling from 1420 - 1446 AD. After death of Taj Khan his eldest son Fateh Khan was made Nawab of Hisar but Bahlol Lodi expelled Fatehkhan from Hisar. Taj Khan's brother, Muhammad Khan was made Nawab of Hansi

Hansi

Hansi is a city and a municipal council in Hisar district in the Indian state of Haryana. Its 2011 population is estimated to be 1,34,568. It is located at a distance of east of Hisar on National Highway 10. Geographically, it is semi-arid with around 46 cm of annual rainfall. It appears...

 but he was also expelled. Fateh Khan and Muhammad Khan came to Shekhawati

Shekhawati

Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India got its name from Shekhawat Rajputs....

 area of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 and established the states of Fatehpur

Fatehpur, Shekhawati

Fatehpur is a town of Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. It is part of the Shekhawati region. It is midway between Jaipur and Bikaner on National Highway 11. Fatehpur is famous for grand havelis with frescos, which is a specialty of the Shekhawati region...

 and Jhunjhunu

Jhunjhunu

Jhunjhunu is a town in the state of Rajasthan in India, and the administrative headquarters of Jhunjhunu District. It is located a 180 km from Jaipur and 245 km from Delhi. The town is famous for the frescos on its grand Havelis, a special artistic feature of this region.- Etymology...

 respectively. Nawab Zainudin Khan and Nawab Jabeerudin Khan founded the states of Narhar

Narhar

Narhar is an ancient town situated in Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan, India. It is Located at a distance of 40 km from Jhunjhunu in northeast direction from Jhunjhunu and south of Pilani. It is a place of pilgrimage of the Muslims as well as Hindus. There is an old Durgah after the name of Sufi...

, Barwasi, Jharo Dapti, and Kayad.

In the Mughal

Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire ,‎ or Mogul Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent. The Mughal emperors were descendants of the Timurids...

 era, Nawab Alaf Khan - Nawab Of Fatehpur became the commander of Rajput forces in the army of Emperor Jahangir. According to Tuzk-e-Jahangiri

Tuzk-e-Jahangiri

Tuzk-e-Jahangiri or Tuzk-i-Jahangiri is the autobiography of Mughal Emperor Nor-u-Din Muhammad Jahangir . Also referred to as Jahangirnama , Tuzk-e-Jahangiri is written in Persian, and follows the tradition of his great-grandfather, Babur , who had written the Baburnama; though Jahangir went a...

, he conquered Qilla Of Kongrah and assisted in the battle of Deccan. He is considered as the most prominent personality after Kaim Khan.

Military Service

The British designated the Kaimkhanis as a martial race

Martial Race

Martial Race was a designation created by Army officials of British India, where they classified each ethnic group into one of two categories: 'Martial' and 'Non-Martial'. A 'martial race' was typically considered brave and well built for fighting. The 'non-martial races' were those whom the...

 and recruited them into the British Indian Army

British Indian Army

The British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947...

, mainly in The Grenadiers

The Grenadiers

The Grenadiers are an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, formerly part of the Bombay Army and later the pre-independence Indian Army, when the regiment was known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers. It has distinguished itself during the two world wars and also since the Independence of India...

 infantry regiment and the various Cavalry regiments of the Indian Army

Indian Army

The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...

. In post-independence India, the Kaimkhanis continued to serve in these regiments, but with reduced numbers. Currently, the 61st Cavalry Regiment of the Indian Armoured Corps, the only purely horse-mounted cavalry regiment in the modern world, has the highest number of Kaimkhani recruits.

Prominent Kaimkhanis

[LATE [Maj. Gen (Retired)Bashir Khan (Former Federal Minister for Production) - Government of Pakistan) - [Ex Chairman Pakistan Red crescent Society

eneral (Retired) Yousuf - Vice Chief of Pakistan Army

Mushtaq Ali Kaimkhani (Son of Late Asghar Ali Khan - Khipro) Pakistan International Airline

.E. Prince Mohammed Bakhtawar Khan (Late) - Prominent Entrepreneur, Major Landlord Hyderabad (India) & philanthropist

.E. Prince Mumtaz Ali Khan (Late) - (Son of Mohammed Bakhtawar khan) - First Muslim kaimkhani MNA Hyderabad, Deccan, India

. E. Prince Mohammed Ishaq Ali Khan - (Son of Mohammed Bakhtawar khan) - First Kaim Khani to settle UK - Lawyer / Prominent Business Person

[LATE [H. E. Prince Fathyab Ali khan) - (Son of Mohammed Bakhtawar Khan) - Lawyer, most Prominent-popular political leader & Chairman Pakistan Institute of International affairs

. E. Prince Rashid Ali Khan - (Son of Mohammed Ishaq Ali Khan) - Entrepreneur and owner of PAK International Corp & Advisory

. E. Prince Adam Yusuf Khan - (son of Mohammed Ishaq Ali Khan) - Entrepreneur and owner of British China based media / electronic companies

ubina Saadat Qaim Khani - [M.N.A Member Of National Assembly]

habbir Qaim Khani - ex Minister Of Excise & Taxation [Member Of Provincial Assembly]

nees Ahmed Qaim Khani [Present Deputy Convenor, Muttahida Qaumi Movement]

apt.(Retired) Asad Ali Khan QaimKhani (ADC to CinC Field Marshal Ayub Khan)

aj.General Muhammad Mustafa Khan -Present Deputy Director General ISI of Pakistan Army

bdul Rahman Khan , Former Director-General of Rajasthan Police , 1974-79.

awab Amanullah khan, Former Parliamentary Secratary , M.N.A.
Usman Kaimkhani S/O Yasin kaimkahni
Taj Muhammad Khan Almas {Writer of the " Tareekh Qaim Khani Rajput"). A History Book

Ali Nawaz Qaim Khani {"Suprintendant of Highways Mirpurkhas Sindh"}. From Samaro Sindh. Contact:03003351767.