Amir Khan (Tonk State)

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Nawab Amir Khan (1769–1834) was a military general in the service of Yashwantrao Holkar of the Maratha Empire and later became the first ruler of the princely state of Tonk (in present day Rajasthan, India). Amir Khan was a Hindustani Pathan and a North Indian Muslim. Born and bred in Sambhal, Amir Khan was the son of a Zamindar in Uttar Pradesh, Hayat Khan, while his grandfather Taleh Khan was a Pashtun from the Salarzai tribe, sub-tribe of Illyaszai of Musazai Yusufzai Tribe of Village Jowar, District buner in modern-day Pakistan who had migrated to and acquired land in Rohilkhand.

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