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'{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2022}} {{use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}{{infobox caste | caste_name = KAYAMKHANI | caste_name_in_local = '''قائم خانی''' | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | abbreviation = | varna = | jati = [[Rajput]] | gotra = | religions = [[File:Star and Crescent.svg|17px]][[Islam]] | languages = [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Rajasthani languages|Rajasthani]] | country = {{Flag|Pakistan}}, {{Flag|India}} | region = [[Sindh region|Sindh]], [[Rajasthan]] | India_migration = | population = | family_names = | feudal_title = [[Raja]] | heraldic_title = | lineage = | subdivisions = | related = [[Chauhan dynasty]] }} '''Qaimkhani''' (also spelled '''kayamkhani''' and '''Qaim Khani'''; occasionally rendered as '''Kaimkhani''') is a [[Muslim Rajput]] community of [[India]] who were notable for ruling the [[Fatehpur (sikar), Churu Rajasthan| [[Fatehpur]]-[[Jhunjhunu]] , Nagaur ,Shekhawati region in [[Rajasthan]] and Hansi , Hisar 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> ==History== They are said 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]] ruled in Alipura, 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}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Indian Muslim}} [[Category:Rajput clans of Rajasthan]] [[Category:Rajput clans of Haryana]] [[Category:Muslim communities of Rajasthan]] [[Category:Rajput clans of Sindh]]'