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Kamal Khan Gakhar

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Kamal Gakhar
کمال گکھڑ
Sardār
Kamal Khan defeats Sultan Adam Khan Gakhar to take the throne
Sultan of Pothohar
Reign1555 - 1566
PredecessorAdam Khan Gakhar
SuccessorSaid Khan Gakhar
Died1566
Names
Kamal Gakhar putt Sarang Gakhar
کمال گکھڑ ولد سارنگ گکھڑ
FatherSarang Gakhar
ReligionSunni Islam

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]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Sharma, Parvati (15 May 2023). A Lamp for the Dark World: Akbar, India's Greatest Mughal. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-5381-7790-7.