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Ghazi Shah Chak

d. 1566 · 16th century

Ghazi Shah Chak was a Kashmiri noble who deposed the last Shah Mir sultan in 1561 and took the throne at Srinagar, founding the Chak dynasty, the first Shia dynasty of Kashmir. Illness forced him to hand power to his brother Husain Shah in 1563. The Chaks ruled until the Mughal conquest of 1586.

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Chak dynasty

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