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| birth_name = Ameer Khan<br />
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| birth_place = [[Banda (state)|Banda]]<br />
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| death_place = [[Rampur State]]<br />
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'''Ameer Khan Beenkar''' was an illustrious [[veena]] player of the eighteenth century. He was also an outstanding [[dhrupad]] singer. He along with his uncle and father-in-law Bahadur Hussain Khan established the [[Rampur State|Rampur]] musical court during the period of Nawab [[Yusef Ali Khan]] and Nawab [[Kalb Ali Khan]]. Ameer Khan went to Haj pilgrimage with Nawab [[Kalb Ali Khan]] in the year 1872.<ref>Tareekh e Rohila by Nafees Siddiqui</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbgHAQAAMAAJ&q=ameer+khan+beenkar+rampur|title=Senia Gharana, Its Contribution to Indian Classical Music|isbn=9788185047492|last1=Dhar|first1=Sunita|year=1989}}</ref> Ameer Khan was also a capable portrait artist. His self-portrait was published in ''Musaddas Tahniyat-e-Jahsn-e-Benazeer'' written by [[Awadh]] poet and later Rampur courtier Meer Yar Ali Jaan Sahab. Musaddas is currently in Rampur Raza Library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://razalibrary.gov.in/Publication.html|title = Raza Library}}</ref>.Ameer Khan wrote ''Gulshan-e-Masarrat'' which is also preserved in Rampur Raza library.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sangeet Natak|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=zYqfAAAAMAAJ}}|year=1973|publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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Ameer Khan was born in Banda to [[Omrao Khan]]. He was the father of celebrated vina player [[Wazir Khan (Rampur)|Wazir Khan]].<ref name="Miner1997">{{cite book|first=Allyn |last=Miner|title=Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=4nPHTCS8vfUC|page=138}}|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-1493-6|pages=138–}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Sadarang]]<br />
*[[Wazir Khan (Rampur)]]<br />
*[[Tansen]]<br />
*[[Naubat Khan]]<br />
*[[Kishangarh]]<br />
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