Dahir of Aror

Raja Dahir ( (Urdu: راجہ داہر) b. 679, d. 712)Wink, 153 was a Sindhi Hindu ruler. He was the last Hindu ruler of Sindh and parts of Punjab in what is Pakistan. In the early part of the Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent, Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi took control of Dahir's kingdom for the Umayyad Caliphate. where Dahir died while defending his kingdom. According to the Chachnama, the Umayyad campaign against Dahir was due to a pirate raid off the coast of the Sindhi coast that resulted in gifts to the Umayyad caliph from the king of Serendib,  https://lotusarise.com/inshorts/raja-dahir-dahir-of-aror/

 Related pages 
 History of Sindh
 History of Pakistan
 Twin Battles of Debal

 References 
 Mirza Kalichbeg Fredunbeg: The Chachnamah, An Ancient History of Sind, Giving the Hindu period down to the Arab Conquest. Translated by from the Persian by, Commissioners Press 1900  
 Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas, Delhi, 1934
 R.C. Majumdar, H.C. Roychandra and Kalikinkar Ditta. : An Advanced History of India, Part II,
 Tareekh-Sind, By Mavlana Syed Abu Zafar Nadvi


Category:Pakistani monarchs
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