What is Dahir of Aror?
{{Expand language|otherarticle=راجا ڏاهر|langcode=sd|}} '''Raja Dahir''' ({{lang-sd|'''راجا ڏاھر'''}} ([[Urdu]]: راجہ داہر) b. 679, d. 712)<ref>Wink, 153</ref> was a [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] [[Hinduism|Hindu]] ruler. He was the last [[Hindu]] ruler of [[Sindh]] and parts of [[Punjab region|Punjab]] in what is [[Pakistan]]. In the early part of the [[Muslim conquests|Muslim conquest]] in the [[Indian subcontinent]], [[Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi]] took control of Dahir's [[kingdom]] for the [[Umayyad Empire|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 [[Sindh|Sindhi]] coast that resulted in gifts to the [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad caliph]] from the king of Serendib, <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/the-myth-of-partition-and-the-unmaking-of-war-9935|title=The ‘Myth of Partition’ and the unmaking of war|first=Farhan Mujahid|last=Chak|website=The ‘Myth of Partition’ and the unmaking of war}}</ref><ref>https://lotusarise.com/inshorts/raja-dahir-dahir-of-aror/</ref> == Related pages == * [[Sindh|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 [http://persian.packhum.org/persian/pf?file=12701030&ct=0] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219075916/http://persian.packhum.org/persian/pf?file=12701030&ct=0 |date=2014-02-19 }} * 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 * {{cite book| last = Wink| first = Andre| title = Al-hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World| year = 1990| publisher = BRILL| isbn = 978-90-04-09249-5 }} {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dahir, Raja}} [[Category:Pakistani monarchs]]