Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

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Bahadur Shah (ruled 1526-1535 and 1536-1537) was a sultan of Gujarat, at the time an independent realm but now a state in the Republic of India. During his reign Gujarat was under pressure from the expanding Mughal Empire under emperors Babur (died 1530) and Humayun (1530-1540), and from the Portuguese, who were establishing fortified settlements on the Gujarat coast to expand their power in India from their base in Goa. In 1535 Gujarat came was occupied by the Mughals, and Bahadur Shah was forced to conclude an alliance with the Portuguese to regain the country, conceding Daman and Diu, Mumbai, and Vasai to the Portuguese. He was killed by the Portuguese while visiting them on a Portuguese ship anchored off the coast of Gujarat, and his body was dumped into the Arabian Sea.^[1]

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