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Qanungoh Shaikhs (Also spelt Qanungo, Kanungoh, Kanungo etc.) are a clan of Muslim Shaikhs in Punjab, other parts of Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The Qanungoh were the employees of the court and judicial systems in South Asia during the period of Muslim rule; the title Qanungoh literally referring to an "expounder of law" or the Qanun. These included judges; qazi who were styled sahib or sahibzada, lawyers and a wide variety of other legal functionaries, who would form the principal officers in district or regional courts of investigation, in criminal matters and in offences of a "spiritual nature". On a state level Qanungoh Shaikhs were hereditary government agents and “permanent repositories of information concerning the revenue receipts, area statistics, local revenue rates and (the) pra

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  • Qanungo (de)
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  • Qanungo, auch Qanungoh, Kanungo, eigtl. Erläuterer des Gesetzes, von arab. کانون, qānun, türk. und hindi kānūn (in Devnagari कानून), wörtlich "Gesetz", ist eine im Norden Indiens, in Pakistan und Bangladesch seit dem hohen Mittelalter (13. Jh.) gebräuchliche Bezeichnung für die mit der Registrierung von Grundstücken zu Steuerzwecken auf der Verwaltungsebene der Parganas betrauten örtlichen Beamten, die oft einer der höheren Hindukasten (Brahmanen, , Kayastha u. a.) angehörten; Titel und Amt wurden in den Familien erblich. (de)
  • Qanungoh Shaikhs (Also spelt Qanungo, Kanungoh, Kanungo etc.) are a clan of Muslim Shaikhs in Punjab, other parts of Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The Qanungoh were the employees of the court and judicial systems in South Asia during the period of Muslim rule; the title Qanungoh literally referring to an "expounder of law" or the Qanun. These included judges; qazi who were styled sahib or sahibzada, lawyers and a wide variety of other legal functionaries, who would form the principal officers in district or regional courts of investigation, in criminal matters and in offences of a "spiritual nature". On a state level Qanungoh Shaikhs were hereditary government agents and “permanent repositories of information concerning the revenue receipts, area statistics, local revenue rates and (the) pra (en)
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