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Bakht Khān

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Muḥammad Bakht Khān (1212/1797–1275–1859) was the nominal commander of the rebel forces ranged against the British in Delhi during the uprising of 1857. Of Pushtūn origin and connected to the Rohillā (also Ruhelā) chiefs of Rohilkhan'd' (also Rulelkhan'd', the capital of which i…