Kheshgi

{{Short description|Sarbani Pashtun tribe found in South Asia}}

The Kheshgi or Khaishgi (Pashto: خیشکی) is a prominent Sarbani Pashtun tribe and Imperial dynasty in South Asia, mainly in India and Pakistan.{{Cite book|last=Rose|first=Horace Arthur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2P6JPwAACAAJ|title=A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province|date=2007|publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications|isbn=978-969-35-1911-2|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Low|first=D. A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VaeuCwAAQBAJ|title=Political Inheritance of Pakistan|date=1991-06-18|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-11556-3|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Rashid|first=Haroon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOFtAAAAMAAJ|title=History of the Pathans: The Sarabani Pathans|date=2002|publisher=Haroon Rashid|language=en}}

{{Infobox family

| name = Kheshgi

| image = File:Qusuri or ‘Kusuri, an Afghan of Kasur - Tashrih al-aqvam (1825), f.451v - BL Add. 27255.jpg

| image_caption = An ethnic Kasuri Pashtun of the Kheshgi Dynasty of Kasur

| type = Muslim Imperial Dynasty

| region = South Asia (mainly India and Pakistan)

| origin = Keshik, Kerman Province, Mongol Empire

| founded = Early 1400s

| other_families = Muhammadzai family
Afridi family

Musharraf family{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBws32j4zwYC&dq=khaishgi+musharraf&pg=PT13|isbn = 9781847395962|title = In the Line of Fire|date = 4 September 2008|publisher = Simon and Schuster}}

| traditions = Islam

| estate = Khurja

Kheshgi Payan
Kasur
Princely State of Mamdot

| meaning = Kheshgi is derived from their ancestors' name, Kheshig, which in Mongolian means: "favored", "blessed", "glorified"

| titles = Nawab of Kasur{{Broken anchor|date=2024-07-25|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=List of Pashtun empires and dynasties#Dynasties in South Asia|reason= The anchor (Dynasties in South Asia) has been deleted.}} (1525)

Nawab of Mamdot (1848)
Family of Vice-Chancellors (1956)
President of India (1967)
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (1984)

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