Jhok or Jhok Shareef ( sd, جهوڪ) is a small town in district
Sujawal,
Sindh,
Pakistan
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.
Battle of Jhok
Jhok is also the home of Sufi
Shah Inayat Shaheed
Shah Inayatullah ( sd, شاه عنایت اللہ; 1655–1718), popularly known as Sufi Shah Inayat Shaheed, Shah Shaheed or Shah Inayat of Jhok, was a 17th-century revolutionary from Jhok, Sindh.
He was executed on the order of Mughal Em ...
, who battled against the
Mughal empire
The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...
over the distribution of land and taxation among poor peasants (Harees) and thus was executed at the hands of
Farrukhsiyar
Farrukhsiyar or Farrukh Siyar () (20 August 16839 April 1719) was the tenth emperor of the Mughal Empire from 1713 to 1719. He rose to the throne after assassinating his uncle, Emperor Jahandar Shah. Reportedly a handsome man who was easily ...
, then ruler of
India
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.
See also
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Shah Inayat Shaheed
Shah Inayatullah ( sd, شاه عنایت اللہ; 1655–1718), popularly known as Sufi Shah Inayat Shaheed, Shah Shaheed or Shah Inayat of Jhok, was a 17th-century revolutionary from Jhok, Sindh.
He was executed on the order of Mughal Em ...
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Sufi Shah Inayat Shaheed
Populated places in Sujawal District
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