Bachgoti Rajput

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Bachgoti, Bachalgoti or Bachal, Bachhal{{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}}{{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}}{{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}} are a Hindu Rajput clan found scattered in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan of India. During Muslim Rule of India, many of them accepted Islam and are now part of Muslim Rajput community known as Bachgoti Khanzada. E. G. Barrow in his book mentions Bachal Rajputs formed part of Indian Army{{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}} especially Rajputana Rifles

Among Rajputs Bargujars accepted wives from Bachal Rajputs{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}