Mughal Central Asia campaign
| Mughal Central Asia Campaign | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Shah Jahan Murad Bakhsh Aurangzeb Jai Singh I Jagat Singh |
Nazr Muhammad Khan Abd al-Aziz Khan * Salqam Jangir Khan | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 60,000 cavalry | 120,000 Uzbek forces 100,000 Kazakh forces | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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5,000 men 14,000 men of Nurpur kingdom | Unknown but much more | ||||||||
| The combatants in bold are sovereigns | |||||||||
The Mughal Central Asia Campaign, also known as the Balkh Campaign, was a military campaign from 1645–1647 undertook by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan against the Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara in Central Asia. It notably involved an Indian army crossing the Hindu Kush in battle. The campaign was technically a stalemate.