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Mewat, the Glossary

Mewat is a historical and cultural region which encompasses parts of the modern-day states of Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh in northwestern India.^[1]

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Regions of Rajasthan

Abu Bakr Shah

Abu Bakr Shah Tughlaq (ابو بکر شاه; reigned 1389–1390), was a Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty.

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Administrative divisions of India

The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions.

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Agra

Agra is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow.

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Ahir or Aheer (Sanskrit: Abhira) are a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most members of which identify as being of the Indian Yadav community because they consider the two terms to be synonymous.

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Ahirwal

Ahirwal is a region spanning parts of southern Haryana, north-eastern Rajasthan, and South-Western Delhi The region was once a small principality based from the town of Rewari and controlled by members of the Yaduvanshi Ahir community from around the time when the Mughal empire was in decline. Mewat and Ahirwal are regions of Rajasthan.

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Ahirwati

Ahirwati (Ahīrvāṭī, sometimes also known as Hīrwāṭī) is an Indo-Aryan dialect of India. Mewat and Ahirwati are Haryana.

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Akbar

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.

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All India Meo Sabha

The All India Meo Sabha (English: All India Assembly for Meos) (abbreviation: AIMS) is an Indian political organisation and advocacy group based primarily in the Mewat region of India.

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All-India Muslim League

The All-India Muslim League (AIML), simply called the Muslim League, was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests in British India.

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Alwar

Alwar (Rajasthani Pronunciation: əlʋəɾ) is a city located in India's National Capital Region and the administrative headquarters of Alwar District in the state of Rajasthan.

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Alwar district

Alwar is a district in the state of Rajasthan in northern India, whose district headquarters is Alwar city.

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Alwar State

Alwar State is a princely state of Naruka Rajputs with its capital at Alwar in India.

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Aravalli Range

The Aravalli Range (also spelled Aravali) is a mountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat.

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Aurangzeb

Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as italics, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.

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Babur

Babur (14 February 148326 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.

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Bactria

Bactria (Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia based in the area south of the Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) and north of the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an area within the north of modern Afghanistan.

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Badkhal Lake

Badkhal Lake is a natural lake situated in Badkhal village near Faridabad, in the Indian state of Haryana, about 32 kilometers from the national capital of Delhi.

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Bagar region

Bagar, also Bagad (बागड़) a term meaning the "dry country",Nonica Datta,, The Tribune, 3 July 1999. Mewat and Bagar region are regions of Rajasthan.

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Bahadur Shah Zafar

Bahadur Shah II (born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862), usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar), was the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and a Hindustani poet. He was the second son and the successor to his father, Akbar II, who died in 1837.

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Bairam Khan

Muhammad Bairam Khan (18 January 1501 – 31 January 1561), commonly known as Bairam Khan or Bayram Khan was an important military commander, and later commander-in-chief of the Mughal army, a powerful statesman and regent at the court of the Mughal Emperors, Humayun and Akbar.

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Ballabhgarh

Ballabgarh, officially Balramgarh, is a large town, nearby Faridabad city and a tehsil (subdistrict) in Faridabad district of Haryana, India, and is part of the Delhi National Capital Region ncrup.up.nic.in.

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Battle of Khanwa

The Battle of Khanwa was fought at Khanwa on 16 March 1527.

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Bharatpur district

Bharatpur District is a district in Rajasthan state in western India.

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Bharatpur State

Bharatpur State, which is also known as the Jat State of Bharatpur historically known as the Kingdom of Bharatpur, was a Hindu Kingdom in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.

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Bharatpur, Rajasthan

Bharatpur is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, south of India's capital, New Delhi, from Rajasthan's capital Jaipur, west of Agra of Uttar Pradesh and from Mathura of Uttar Pradesh.

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Bhiwani

Bhiwani is a city and a municipal council in Bhiwani district in the state of Haryana.

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Bhusawar

Bhusawar is a city and a municipality in Bharatpur district in the state of Rajasthan, India.

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Braj

Braj, also known as Vraj, Vraja, Brij or Brijbhumi, is a region in India on both sides of the Yamuna river with its centre at Mathura-Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh state encompassing the area which also includes Palwal, Ballabhgarh and Nuh in Haryana state, Deeg, Bharatpur, Karauli, and Dholpur in Rajasthan state and Morena District in Madhya Pradesh. Mewat and Braj are regions of Rajasthan.

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Brijendra Singh

Maharaja Brijendra Singh (1 December 1918 – 8 July 1995) was the last ruler of the princely state of Bharatpur (1929–1947) and the successor of Maharaja Kishan Singh.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Caste system in India

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.

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Census of India

The decennial census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011.

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Chaudhary

Chaudhary (or Choudhury; also: Chaudhuri, Choudhary, Chowdhury) is a title of honour and a common surname in the Indian subcontinent, originally derived from an Indian hereditary title.

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Chaudhary Khurshid Ahmed

Chaudhary Khurshid Ahmed (20 June 1934 – 17 February 2020) was an Indian politician and a practicing lawyer before the Supreme Court of India, who served as Member of Lok Sabha in a by-poll election from the Lokdal party proceeding the death of the previous office holder, Chaudhary Rahim Khan.

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Chaudhary Rahim Khan

Chaudhary Rahim Khan (1 February 1923 – 18 December 1987) was an Indian politician, who served as a Member of Parliament representing the Faridabad constituency in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament.

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Chhata

Chhata is a small city and a nagar panchayat in Mathura district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Chhata tehsil

Chhata is a tehsil in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh state, India.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Company rule in India

Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from lit) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.

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Daulat Rao Sindhia

Shrimant Daulat Rao Shinde (also Sindhia; 1779 – 21 March 1827) was the Maharaja (ruler) of Gwalior state in central India from 1794 until his death in 1827.

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Dausa district

Dausa district is a district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Deeg

Deeg is an ancient historical city in Deeg district of Rajasthan, India.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Delhi Sultanate

The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, for 320 years (1206–1526).

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Deobandi movement

The Deobandi movement or Deobandism is a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that adheres to the Hanafi school of law.

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Dewan

Dewan (also known as diwan, sometimes spelled devan or divan) designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler.

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Doab

Doab is a term used in South Asia Quote: "Originally and chiefly in South Asia: (the name of) a strip or narrow tract of land between two rivers; spec. Mewat and Doab are regions of Rajasthan.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Economic and Political Weekly

The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust.

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Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.

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Faridabad

Faridabad is the most populous city near NCT of Delhi in the Indian state of Haryana and a part of Delhi National Capital Region.

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Faridabad district

Faridabad district is one of the 22 districts of the Indian state of Haryana with Faridabad city being the district headquarters.The District is a Part of Central National Capital Region of Delhi.The Delhi-Mathura-Agra National Highway 44 (Grand Trunk Road) passes through the centre of the district, which occupies an area of and had a population of 1,809,733.

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Fatwa

A fatwa (translit; label) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.

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Ferozepur Jhirka

Ferozepur Jhirka is a town in the Nuh district of the Indian state of Haryana.

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First Battle of Panipat

The First Battle of Panipat, on 21 April 1526 was fought between the invading forces of Babur and the Lodi dynasty.

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Firuz Shah Tughlaq

Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Ghasera

Gandhi Gram Ghasera or Ghasera is a village in Nuh district of Haryana state in northern India.

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Ghiyas ud din Balban

Ghiyas ud din Balban (غیاث الدین بلبن; 1216–1287,: 1266–1287) was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi.

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Govindgarh, Rajasthan

Govindgarh is a census town in Jaipur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Grand Trunk Road

The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads.

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Greek campaigns in India

In ancient times, trade between the Indian subcontinent and Greece flourished with silk, spices and gold being traded.

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Gurgaon district

Gurgaon district, officially known as Gurugram district, is one of the 22 districts of Haryana in northern India.

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Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty

The Pratihara dynasty, also called the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Pratiharas of Kannauj and the Imperial Pratiharas, was a medieval Indian dynasty that ruled parts of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century.

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Harsha

Harshavardhana (IAST Harṣa-vardhana; 4 June 590–647 CE) was the emperor of Kannauj and ruled northern India from 606 to 647 CE.

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Haryana

Haryana (ISO: Hariyāṇā) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country.

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Hasan Khan Mewati

Raja Hasan Khan Mewati (died 17 March 1527) was a Muslim Khanzada Rajput ruler of Mewat.

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Hathin

Hathin is a town and a Municipal Committee in Palwal district of Haryana in India.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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History of Delhi

Delhi has been an important political centre of India as the capital of several empires.

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Hodal

Hodal is a town and a municipal council, located, on Palwal Road in Palwal district in the Haryana state of India.It is Part of Braj region.

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Humayun

Nasir al-Din Muhammad (6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), commonly known by his regnal name Humayun, was the second Mughal emperor, who ruled over territory in what is now Eastern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Northern India, and Pakistan from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to his death in 1556.

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Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences

Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences (IAMMS) (ابن سینا اکاڈمی آف میڈیول میڈیسین اینڈ سائنسیز.) is a trust registered under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882.

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Ibrahim Khan Lodi

Ibrahim Khan Lodi (ابراهیملودی; 1480 – 21 April 1526) was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, who became Sultan in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Khan Lodi.

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Ilyas Kandhlawi

Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar of the Deobandi movement who founded the Tablighi Jamaat, in 1925, in Mewat province.

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Indian National Congress

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Indo-Aryan languages

The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Jadaun (clan)

Jadaun also known Jadon is a Rajput clan.

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Jagir

A jagir (جاگیر|translit.

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Jai Singh I

Mirza Raja Jai Singh I (15 July 1611 – 28 August 1667) was the senior most general ("Mirza Raja") and a high ranking mansabdar at the imperial court of Mughal Empire as well as the Kachwaha ruler of the Kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur).

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Jai Singh Prabhakar

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Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Jats

The Jat people are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan.

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Kaman, Rajasthan

Kaman or Kamaban is an town located in the Deeg district of Rajasthan.

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Karna

Karna (Sanskrit: कर्ण, IAST: Karṇa), also known as Vasusena, Anga-raja, and Radheya, is one of the main protagonists of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata.

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Kathumar

Kathumar is a town and tehsil of Alwar district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Khadir and Bangar

Khādir or Khadar and Bangar, Bāngur or Bhangar (Hindi language: खादर और बांगर, Urdu languageکهادر اور بانگر) are terms used in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi in the Indo-Gangetic plains of North India and Pakistan to differentiate between two types of river plains and alluvial soils.

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Khanzada Feroz Khan

Wali-e-Mewat Raja Khanzada Feroz Khan, Bahadur, son of Khanzada Bahadur Khan, was the Khanzada Rajput ruler of Mewat State from 1417 till 1422.

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Khanzada Jalal Khan

Fateh-Ud-Duniya-Wa-Ud Din Wali-e-Mewat Raja Khanzada Jalal Khan Bahadur a.k.a. Jallu Khan, son of Khanzada Feroz Khan, was the Khanzada Rajput ruler of Mewat State from 1422 to 1443.

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Khanzada Rajputs

The Khanzada or Khan Zadeh are a cluster community of Muslim Rajputs found in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

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Khanzadas of Mewat

The Mewat State was a sovereign kingdom ruled by the Khanzadas of Mewat.

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Kherli

Kherli is a city and a municipality in Alwar district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.Kherli mandi(Grain Market) is the second largest mandi in Rajasthan.

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Khizr Khan

Khizr Khan (reigned 28 May 1414 – 20 May 1421) was the founder of the Sayyid dynasty, the fourth ruling dynasty of the Delhi sultanate, in northern India soon after the invasion of Timur and the fall of the Tughlaq dynasty.

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Kishangarh Bas

Kishangarh Bas is a census town in Alwar district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Kumher

Kumher (formerly Kumbher) is a historical town and land of Yaduvanshi Sinsinwars the initial name of this town was Kuber.

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Kunwar Mohammad Ashraf

Kunwar Mohammad Ashraf (November 24, 1903 - June 7, 1962) was a Marxist historian and leader of the Communist Party of India.

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Kushan Empire

The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Laxmangarh

Laxmangarh is a town in the Sikar district of Rajasthan state in India.

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List of sultans of Delhi

The Sultan of Delhi was the absolute monarch of the Delhi Sultanate that stretched over large parts of the subcontinent during the period of Medieval India, for 320 years (1206–1526).

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mahadaji Shinde

Mahadaji Shinde (23 December 1730 – 12 February 1794), later known as Mahadji Scindia or Madhava Rao Scindia, was a Maratha statesman and general who served as the Raja of Gwalior from 1768 to 1794.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.

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Mahendra Mewati

Mahendra Mewati (25 January 1970 – 9 January 2019) was an Indian theatre and film actor known for his theatre productions and for films.

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Mahwa, Rajasthan

Mahwa is a census town in Mahwa Mandal, Dausa district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam

Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam (مجلس احرارلأسلام), also known as Ahrar for short, is a religious Muslim political party in the Indian subcontinent that was formed during the British Raj (prior to the Partition of India) on 29 December 1929 at Lahore.

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Malik Alaudin Khan

Malik Alaudin Khan was the son of Raja Nahar Khan and the jagirdar of Tijara.

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Mandawar, Rajasthan

Mandawar is a town in the Dausa district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Maniram

Shri Maniram Pandit (8 December 1910 – 16 May 1985) was an Indian classical vocalist from the Mewati gharana.

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Maratha Confederacy

The Maratha Confederacy, also referred to as the Maratha Empire, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent.

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Mathura district

Mathura district is situated along the banks of the river Yamuna is a district of Uttar Pradesh state of north-central India.

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Matsya

Matsya (lit) is the fish avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.

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Maurya Empire

The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).

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Meerut

Meerut (ISO: Mēraṭha) is a city in the western region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)

A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of State government in the Indian system of government.

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Meo (ethnic group)

Meo (pronounced: mev or may-o) (also spelled Mayo or occasionally, Mewati) are a Muslim ethnic group originating from the Mewat region of north-western India.

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Mewar

Mewar or Mewad is a region in the south-central part of Rajasthan state of India. Mewat and Mewar are historical Indian regions and regions of Rajasthan.

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Mewati cattle

Mewati, also known as Kosi, is an indigenous breed of cattle in India.

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Mewati language

Mewati (Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Meo people.

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Mubarak Shah (Sayyid dynasty)

Muizuddin Muhammad Mubarak Shah (مبارک شاهمعز الدین محمد, born Mubarak Khan; مبارک خانمعز الدین محمد) was the second monarch of the Sayyid dynasty which ruled the Delhi Sultanate.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 187611 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan.

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Muhammad of Ghor

Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad ibn Sam (translit; 15 March 1206), also known as Muhammad of Ghor or Muhammad Ghori, was a ruler from the Ghurid dynasty based in the Ghor region of what is today central Afghanistan who ruled from 1173 to 1206.

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Nadbai

Nadbai is a city and a municipality in Bharatpur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Nagar, Rajasthan

Brij Nagar (Commonly known as Nagar) is a town and tehsil in Deeg district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Nahar Khan

Raja Bahadur Nahar Khan was the ruler of Mewat and the progenitor of Khanzada Rajput clan who were themselves a sub-clan of Jadaun Rajputs.

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Nahar Singh

Raja Nahar Singh (died 1858) was the Raja of the princely state of Ballabhgarh in Faridabad District of Haryana, India.

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Nardak

The Nardak ("high tract") is a region in western and northern parts of Karnal district in northeastern area of Haryana state of India.

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Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, Sultan of Delhi

Nasir ud din Mahmud Shah (ناصر الدین محمود شاه; 1229/1230 – 19 November 1266, reigned: 1246–1265) was the eighth sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate (Slave dynasty).

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Nuh (city)

Nuh (Hind/Urdu:, is a city and administrative headquarters of the Nuh district, located in the state of Haryana within the National Capital Region of India. It lies on the National Highway 248 (NH 48), also known as the Gurgaon-Sohna-Alwar highway, about from Gurgaon.

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Nuh district

Nuh district (formerly known as the Mewat district) is one of the 22 districts of Haryana in northern India.

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Pahari, Rajasthan

Pahari, also known as Pahadi, is a tehsil and panchayat village in Deeg district of Rajasthan in India.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Palwal district

Palwal district was created on 15 August 2008.

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Pargana

Pargana or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each parganas may or may not be subdivided into pirs.

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Parthia

Parthia (𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 Parθava; 𐭐𐭓𐭕𐭅Parθaw; 𐭯𐭫𐭮𐭥𐭡𐭥 Pahlaw) is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

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Punahana

Punhana is a town in Punhana sub-division in the Nuh district in the Indian state of Haryana.

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Punjab Legislative Assembly

The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in India.

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Punjab Provincial Assembly (British India)

The Punjab Provincial Assembly was the legislature of the province of Punjab in British India.

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Qutb ud-Din Aibak

Qutb ud-Din Aibak (قطب‌الدین ایبک; 1150 – 14 November 1210) was a general of the Ghurid emperor Muhammad Ghori.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajput

Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thakur, is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Rana Sanga

Sangram Singh I (12 April 1482 – 30 January 1528), most commonly known as Rana Sanga, was the Maharana of Mewar from 1508 to 1528 CE.

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Rao Tula Ram

Rao Tularam Singh (circa 9 December 1825 – 23 September 1863) was a Yaduvanshi Ahir King or chieftain of Rewari.

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Regent

In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to govern a state for the time being because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.

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Religious syncretism

Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.

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Rewari

Rewari is a city and a municipal council in Rewari district in the Indian state of Haryana.

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Samudragupta

Samudragupta (Gupta script: Sa-mu-dra-gu-pta, (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he greatly expanded his dynasty's political and military power.

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Sawai Tej Singh Naruka

Maharaja Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar, KCSI (17 March 1911 – 15 February 2009), was a ruler of Naruka dynasty of the Indian princely state of Alwar, Rajasthan from July 22, 1937 to 15 Aug 1947.

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Sayyid dynasty

The Sayyid dynasty was the fourth dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, with four rulers ruling from 1414 to 1451 for 37 years.

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Scythians

The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

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Siege of Delhi

The Siege of Delhi was one of the decisive conflicts of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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Sohna

Sohna is a town and a municipal council in the Gurugram district of Haryana, India.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Suraj Mal

Maharaja Suraj Mal (13 February 1707 – 25 December 1763) (Hindi: महाराजा सूरजमल) was a Jat ruler of Bharatpur in present-day state of Rajasthan.

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Syncretism

Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.

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Tablighi Jamaat

Tablighi Jamaat (also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") is an international Islamic religious movement focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant and encouraging fellow members to return to practising their religion as per the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and secondarily give dawah (calling) to non-Muslims.

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Taoru

Taoru or Tauru is a town, near Nuh city in Nuh district in the Indian state of Haryana.

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Tayyab Husain

Chaudhary Tayyab Husain (September 7, 1936 – October 7, 2008) was an Indian politician, who served as a Member of Parliament from Gurgaon and Faridabad in the Lok Sabha.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.

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Tijara

Tijara is a city and a municipality in Khairthal-Tijara district of the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Timur

Timur, also known as Tamerlane (8 April 133617–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mewat

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