A Family History of Pashtun Migrants in India and the Rise of Indo-Afghan Nobility
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This article examines the content and the documentary value of an essay on the genealogy and family history of Haybat KhÄn KÄkaá¹, a member of the Indo-Afghan migrant community, whose contribution to the first book on Pashtun ethnohistory, the TÄrÄ«kh-i khÄnjahÄnÄ« wa makhzan-i afghÄnÄ« (1613), remains underestimated. Written in Persian by Haybat KhÄn himself, this essay has survived as an appendix in several manuscripts of the TÄrÄ«kh-i khÄnjahÄnÄ«, including its early dated copy of 1629. While further confirming Haybat KhÄnâs co-authorship of the book, the essay provides reliable first-hand data on the dynamics of the formation of the Pashtun nobility in the Delhi Sultanate from the mid-fifteenth century and testifies to the veracity of Pashtun genealogical traditions beginning form the early thirteenth century. Through intertextual links with the TÄrÄ«kh-i khÄnjahÄnÄ«, it also sheds light on the social and business activities of women, citing an illustrative case of the transformation of historical facts into hagiography.
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A Family History of Pashtun Migrants in India and the Rise of Indo-Afghan Nobility
äºIran and the CaucasusSearch for other papers by Mikhail Pelevin in
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Abstract
This article examines the content and the documentary value of an essay on the genealogy and family history of Haybat KhÄn KÄkaá¹, a member of the Indo-Afghan migrant community, whose contribution to the first book on Pashtun ethnohistory, the TÄrÄ«kh-i khÄnjahÄnÄ« wa makhzan-i afghÄnÄ« (1613), remains underestimated. Written in Persian by Haybat KhÄn himself, this essay has survived as an appendix in several manuscripts of the TÄrÄ«kh-i khÄnjahÄnÄ«, including its early dated copy of 1629. While further confirming Haybat KhÄnâs co-authorship of the book, the essay provides reliable first-hand data on the dynamics of the formation of the Pashtun nobility in the Delhi Sultanate from the mid-fifteenth century and testifies to the veracity of Pashtun genealogical traditions beginning form the early thirteenth century. Through intertextual links with the TÄrÄ«kh-i khÄnjahÄnÄ«, it also sheds light on the social and business activities of women, citing an illustrative case of the transformation of historical facts into hagiography.
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