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1. ↑Abdur Rashid notes that while the rest of the sources describe him as a Jat, one source states that he was an Ahir.\5\ Jos J. L. Gommans also notes that he is mostly described as a Jat or an Ahir in contemporary sources.\6\ Iqbal Husain states, "It is acknowledged on all hands that 'Ali Muḥammad Khan was not an Afghan. That he was a Saiyed is at best dubious; that he was a Jat, or of some other local peasant caste is more than probable."\7\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed01. Jump up to: 1 2 3Khoja, Neelam. 2018. Sovereignty, Space, and Identity: The Politics of Power in Eighteenth Century Punjab. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗02. Jump up to: 1 2 3_Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society Volume 42_. Pakistan Historical Society. 1994. p.24\. Among the captives was one handsome Jat boy by the name of Prem Singh Nano. Da'ud Khan was so attracted towards him that he adopted him as his son, initiated him into the Islamic belief, and named him Ali Muhammad Nano. Later, when the boy reached adulthood, Daud Khan declared him as his successor. Thus began the pedigree of the Nawwabs of Rampur.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed- Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta; Srinivasachari, G. (1971). _Advanced history of India_. Allied Publishers. p.572\. OCLC 976740387. Ali Muhammad Khan, a converted Jat, built up a large principality with its seat at Aonla, 18 miles north-west of Bareilly city and gained recognition from the Delhi court.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗- Prasad, Ishwari (1973). _India in the Eighteenth Century_. Chugh Publications. p.152\. OCLC 732111. Daud was an adventurer of considerable ability and warlike spirit and in a short time gathered around himself a large number of followers. Ali Muhammad who was born of Jat parents was brought up by him as a child and converted to Islam.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗- Gupta, Hari Ram (1999) \1980\. _History of the Sikhs_. Vol.III: Sikh Domination of the Mughal Empire (1764–1803) (2nd rev.ed.). Munshiram Manoharlal. p.11\. ISBN 978-81-215-0213-9. OCLC 165428303. The real founder of the Rohilla power was Ali Muhammad, from whom sprang the present line of the Nawabs of Rampur. Originally a Hindu Jat, who was taken prisoner when a young boy by Daud in one of his plundering expeditions, at village Bankauli in the parganah of Chaumahla, and was converted to Islam and adopted by him.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗- Prasad, Bisheshwar (1978). "Ruhelkhand and Farrukhabad". In Banerjee, A. C.; Ghosh, D.K. (eds.). _A Comprehensive History of India_. Vol.9 (1712–1772). People's Publishing House. p.140\. OCLC 1405593320. There he is reported to have captured a Jat boy of about eight years whom he brought up as his son and named Ali Muhammad Khan, who lived to be his successor and the founder of the state of Ruhelkhand.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗- Rashid, Abdur (1957). "The Rohillas". In Husain, Mahmud; etal. (eds.). _A History of the Freedom Movement_. Vol.I: 1707–1831. Pakistan Historical Society. p.304\. OCLC 1129482853. Amongst other prisoners he obtained a young Jat boy of eight years.1 Daud took a fancy to him and adopted him as his son and named him 'Ali Muhammad Khan.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗- Srivastava, Ashirbadi Lal (1954). _The First Two Nawabs of Oudh_ (2nd rev.ed.). Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co. Ltd. p.103\. OCLC 678892685. While in the service of Mudar Shah of Madhkar, 13 miles east of Chandausi, Daud took part in an expedition against the ruler of Bankauli, 26 miles north of Bareilly, where fell into his hands among other things a handsome Jat boy of seven or eight years of age. He converted the boy into Islam, named him Ali Muhammad Khan and adopted him as his son.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗- Khan, Iqbal Ghani (2002). "Technology and the Question of Elite Intervention in Eighteenth-Century North India". In Barnett, Richard B. (ed.). _Rethinking Early Modern India_. Manohar Publishers & Distributors. p.271\. ISBN 978-81-7304-308-6. Thus we witness the Ruhelas accepting an exceptionally talented non-Afghan, an adopted Jat boy, as their nawab, purely on the basis of his military leadership;
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗05. ↑Rashid, Abdur (1978). _History of the Muslims of Indo-Pakistan Sub-continent, 1707-1806_. Vol.1\. Pakistan Research Society. p.297\. According to the Siyar-ul-Mutakhkhirin⁸ Ali Muhammad Khan was an Ahir by birth. According to others he was of Jat parentage.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed06. Jump up to: 1 2Gommans, Jos J. L. (1995). _The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire: C. 1710-1780_. BRILL. p.120\. ISBN 978-90-04-10109-8. Most of the contemporary sources, however, call him a Jat or an Ahir.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗07. ↑Husain, Iqbal (1994). _The Ruhela Chieftaincies: The Rise and Fall of Ruhela Power in India in the Eighteenth Century_. Oxford University Press. p.41\. ISBN 978-0-19-563068-8.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗08. ↑Irvine, W. (1971). _Later Mughal_. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. p.118. Retrieved 30 July 2022. Once Daud was sent against the village of Bankauli, in pargana Chaumahla, with which his employer was at feud. Along with the plunder taken on this occasion Daud obtained possession of a Jat boy seven or eight years of age, whom he caused to be circumcised and then adopted under the name of Ali Muhammad Khan.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗09. ↑Altaf Ali Brelvi (1966). _Life of Hafiz Rahmat Khan (Hayat-I-Hafiz Rahmat Khan)_. Academy of Educational Research, All Pakistan Education Conference.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗10. ↑Edwin Thomas Atkinson (1876). _Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: 3.:Meerut division part 2 · Volume 3_. National Central Library of Florence. p.605.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗11. Jump up to: 1 2 3Khan, Muhammad Najm-ul-Ghani (1918). _Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, vol. 1_. Lucknow: Munshi Nawal Kishore. pp.146–152.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗12. ↑Muhammad Shah (1702–1748) was a Mughal emperor of India between 1719 and 1748
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed13. ↑Srivastava, Ashirbadi Lal (1954). _The First Two Nawabs of Oudh_ (2nd rev.ed.). Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co. Ltd. p.103\. OCLC 678892685. Contemporary Persian authorities say that Ali Muhammad Khan was of Jat parents. See Gulistan. 7; Abdulkarim, 88b, Ashob, 424; Siyar. II 480, A partisan attempt has, however, been made in modern times to prove that he was a Sayyid. Najmul Ghanl of Rampur has invented a false pedigree of the Khan, tracing it to Muhammad. The Maulvi's discussion is altogether unconvincing and ridiculous. His object seems to be to prove that the present ruler of Rampur is a Sayyid.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗14. ↑Khan, Mohammad Najm-ul-Ghani Khan (1918). _Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, vol. 1_. Lucknow: Munshi Nawal Kishore. pp.195–196.
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