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‘Ali Kufi claimed to have translated a history of this region that records its defeated ruler petitioned to have its conqueror suffocated in a sewn-up cowhide. This region was ruled by the Rai dynasty until its widowed queen Suhandi married the minister Chach. An invasion of this region responded to bawarij pirates who operated out of Debal. The Habbaris ruled this region from Mansura after Muhammad bin Qasim defeated the rulers of Alor and established its namesake caliphal province, which stretched northeast to a neighboring region’s city of Multan. Charles Napier reported his conquest of this region by telegramming “peccavi.” (10[1])After the 712 CE fall of this region’s Brahmin dynasty, it became the first region in the Indian subcontinent under Umayyad rule. For 10 points, the East India Company grew trade in what region’s port of Karachi? ■END■

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