Khanzadas of Mewat

Mewat
1372–1527
Location of Mewat within Rajputana circa 1525, with neighbouring polities.[1]
CapitalAlwar
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentTributary to the Delhi Sultanate
(1372-1427)
Independent Monarchy (1427-1527)
Raja 
• 1372
Raja Bahadur Nahar Khan(first)
• 1527
Hasan Khan Mewati (last)
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Established
1372
• Disestablished
1527

The Mewat State was a sovereign kingdom ruled by the Khanzadas of Mewat. They were a ruling dynasty of Muslim Rajputs from Rajputana who had their capital at Alwar. The Khanzadas were Muslim Rajputs who descended from Raja Sonpar Pal who was a Rajput who converted to Islam during the period of the Delhi Sultanate in India.[2][3]

  1. ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 147, map XIV.4 (a). ISBN 0226742210.
  2. ^ Bharadwaj, Suraj (2016). State Formation in Mewat Relationship of the Khanzadas with the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal State, and Other Regional Potentates. Oxford University Press. p. 11. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Meo Rajput by Sardar Azeemullah Khan Meo". www.jadeed.store. Retrieved 23 February 2023.