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Musa Khan
Musa Khan was a leader of the Baro-Bhuyans, the confederacy of landholders in eastern Bengal who resisted Mughal expansion. Son of Isa Khan, he took over the resistance after his father's death in 1599. The Mughal governor Islam Khan defeated him by about 1611, and eastern Bengal was absorbed into the Mughal Empire.
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