Mirza Ghazi Beg

{{Short description|17th century Governor of Sindh province, Mughal Empire od India}}

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| name = Mirza Ghazi Beg

| succession = 3rd Subahdar of Thatta Subah

| title = Mirza
Ghazi
Beg

| image = File:Mirza Ghazi Beg portrait.jpg

| caption = "Likeness of Mirza Ghazi, son of Mirza Jani". Made by Manohar Das, a Mughal painter at the Tarkhan Court in the province of Thatta, circa 1610.{{cite web |last1=Museum |first1=Victoria and Albert |title=Mirza Ghazi Manohar V&A Explore The Collections |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O109866/portrait-of-mirza-ghazi-painting-manohar/mirza-ghazi-painting-manohar/ |website=Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections |date=1610 |language=en}}

| reign = 1 February 1601 – 12 April 1612

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| predecessor = Jani Beg Tarkhan

| successor = Muzaffar Khan Mamuri

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| full name = Mirza Ghazi Beg Khan Turkhan

| house = Tarkhan dynasty

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| religion = Shia Ex-Sunni

| father = Mirza Jani Beg Turkhan

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| birth_date = 1584

| birth_place = Thatta, Sindh Sultanate

| death_date = 12 April 1612
(aged 28)

| death_place = Thatta, Thatta Subah, Mughal Empire
{{small|(present day Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan)}}

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Mirza Ghazi Beg (c. 1584–1612 CE) of the Tarkhan dynasty in Sindh ruled from the capital city of Thatta. In Sindh a network of small and large forts manned by cavalry and musketeers further extended Mughal power during the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.[https://books.google.com/books?id=jtsMLNmMzbkC&pg=PA39 The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling p.39]Cambridge illustrated atlas, warfare: Renaissance to revolution, 1492-1792 by Jeremy Black p.16 [https://books.google.com/books?id=neUKEvaYPZYC&pg=PA16]

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