Kamal_Khan_Gakhar

Kamal Khan Gakhar

Kamal Khan Gakhar

Sultan of Pothohar

Kamal Khan Gakhar was a Chief of the Gakhars and a Mughal General in the 16th century. He assumed the throne of Pothohar Plateau by defeating his uncle Adam Khan in battle with help of the Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Akbar, his father was Sarang Khan who was famous for resisting Suris, losing his life in the struggle.[1][2][3]

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References

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    Awrangābādī, Shāhnavāz Khān (1979). The Maāt̲h̲ir-ul-umarā: Being Biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu Officers of the Timurid Sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D. Janaki Prakashan. pp. 758–760.
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    Singh, Surinder; Gaur, I. D. (2008). Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia. Pearson Education India. p. 92. ISBN 978-81-317-1358-7.
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    Sharma, Parvati (2023-05-15). A Lamp for the Dark World: Akbar, India's Greatest Mughal. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-5381-7790-7.


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