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Muhammad Haidar Dughlat

1499–1551 · 16th century · Also known as Mirza Haidar Dughlat

Muhammad Haidar Dughlat was a Central Asian prince, soldier and historian of the Dughlat family and a cousin of the Mughal emperor Babur. His Persian history, the Tarikh-i Rashidi, written in the 1540s, records the Moghul khans of Central Asia and is a main source for the origins of the Kazakh Khanate. In 1540 he conquered Kashmir, which he ruled in the name of the Mughal emperor Humayun until he was killed there in 1551.

Muhammad Haidar Dughlat
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