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'''Bachgoti, Bachalgoti or Bachal, Bachhal'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=K̲h̲ān̲ |first1=Rānā Muḥammad Sarvar |title=The Rajputs: History, Clans, Culture, and Nobility |date=2005 |publisher=Rana Muhammad Sarwar Khan |pages=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IARuAAAAMAAJ&q=bachal+ |access-date=28 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal |date=1903 |publisher=Baptist Mission Press |pages=123, 166 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9E8iwF1lPMsC&dq=bachgoti+BACHAL&pg=RA2-PA6 |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Husain |first1=Iqbal |title=The Ruhela Chieftaincies: The Rise and Fall of Ruhela Power in India in the Eighteenth Century |date=1994 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-563068-8 |pages=19,38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnRuAAAAMAAJ&q=bachhal+rajput |access-date=6 June 2025 |language=en}}</ref> are a Hindu [[Rajput]] clan found scattered in [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Rajasthan]] states of India. During Muslim rule of India, many of them converted to Islam and are now part of the [[Muslim Rajput]] community known as '''Bachgoti Khanzada'''. [[Edmund Barrow|E. G. Barrow]] in his book mentions Bachal Rajputs formed part of Indian Army<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barrow |first1=E. G. |title=Barrow's Sepoy Officer's Manual: A Book of Reference for Infantry Officers of the Indian Army |date=1918 |publisher=Thacker, Spink & Company |pages=198 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yvc2AQAAMAAJ&q=bachgoti+bachal |access-date=28 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref> especially [[Rajputana Rifles]]<ref name=rr/><br />
Among Rajputs [[Bargujar]]s accepted wives from Bachal Rajputs<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bingley |first1=A. H. |title=Handbook on Rajputs |date=December 1996 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |isbn=978-81-206-0204-5 |pages=44–46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cc2HyXP5dygC&dq=bachal+rajput&pg=RA2-PA46-IA19 |access-date=28 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Richard G. |title=Kin Clan Raja and Rule: State-Hinterland Relations in Preindustrial India |date=15 November 2023 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-32544-9 |pages=24–36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GebeEAAAQBAJ&q=bachgoti+&pg=PA24 |access-date=28 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rao |first1=Nitya |last2=Rürup |first2=Luise |title=A Just Right: Women's Ownership of Natural Resources and Livelihood Security |date=1997 |publisher=Friedrich Ebert Stiftung |isbn=978-81-7440-044-4 |pages=242 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PjsAAAAMAAJ&q=bachgoti+ |access-date=28 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Richard G. |title=Kin Clan Raja and Rule: State-Hinterland Relations in Preindustrial India |date=15 November 2023 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-32544-9 |pages=24–88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GebeEAAAQBAJ&dq=bachgoti+rajput&pg=PA24 |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Allāh |first1=Niʻmat |title=Niamatullah's History of the Afghans |date=1958 |publisher=Santiniketan Press |pages=139–140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QYNAAAAIAAJ&q=bachgoti |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lethbridge |first1=Sir Roper |title=The Golden Book of India. A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated, of the Indian Empire. With an Appendix for Ceylon |date=1900 |publisher=S. Low, Marston & Company |pages=233,269,270 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zykYAAAAYAAJ&dq=bachgoti+rajput&pg=PA233 |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=rr>{{cite book |last1=Sethna |first1=A. M. |last2=Katju |first2=Valmiki |title=Traditions of a Regiment: The Story of the Rajputana Rifles |date=1982 |publisher=Lancers Publishers |pages=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UkssAAAAIAAJ&q=bachgoti+ |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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