Shah Beg Arghun

It is not very clear how the Baloches came to be in complete possession of the

Multan country. Shah Beg Arghun, after overthrowing the Sammas of Sindh,
turned his arms against the Langahs of Maltan, and was opposed at Uchh by an
army of Baloches and Langahs. He was victorious, and advanced on Multan in
A.H. 931 (A.D. 1524) where Shah Mahmud Langah was reigning. The army
which opposed him is said to have been composed of Baloch, Jat, Bind, Dodai
and other tribes.

 The Shah was poisoned by Sheikh Shuja’, his son-in-law, and

the historian says: ‘The army, which consisted chiefly of Baloches, being thus
deprived of its head, the greatest confusion reigned.’ The son of the deceased
king was placed on the throne, but the place fell into the hands of the Arghuns.

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The conquest of Dehli by Babar followed almost immediately, and Shah Beg
admitted his supremacy.
It is evident that the Baloches were in great force in the South Panjab at this
period, and they were in complete possession of the country, as has been seen, in
Sher Shah’s time. The Rinds seem to have spread up the valleys of the Chenab,
the Ravi, and the Satlaj, and the Dodais and Hots up the Indus and the Jehlam.
Babar found the Baloches, as he states in his autobiography