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Shah Beg Arghun
Shah Beg Arghun was the leader of the Arghun dynasty, Turko-Mongol nobles who had served the Timurids of Herat and held Kandahar. Driven out by Babur in the 1510s, he turned south into Sindh, defeated the Samma dynasty in 1520 and established Arghun rule in upper Sindh, with the fortress of Bhakkar on the Indus as a key base.
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