MUGHULS AND SWAT

Download more papers and articles at ValleySwat, www.valleyswat.net 2 Swat lies in the strategic region at the juncture of the Indian subcontinent, China, and Central Asia. For most of its known history, Swat retained its separate entity. It remained prominent as a centre of cultural diffusion and a cradle of civilization and witnessed encounters of formidable armies and civilizations: The archaeological remains and the historical and cultural treasures of the area provide ample evidences of human activities to scholars, archaeologists and historians, to study the area and its people's unique nature. In the present paper an attempt has been made to evaluate and analyse Mughul Swat relations from Babur to Awrangzib's reign. The sixteenth century proved a turning point in the history of Swat when the Yusufzai Afghans Pukhtuns occupied the land. The advent of the Yusufzais ’ marked a mass migration and Invasion for the first time in the history of Swat by Muslims against their brethren in faith. At that time, the last decade of the fifteenth century, Swat was in the possession of the Pukhtuns commonly known as Swati Pukhtuns. Sultān Uwais (Uways) was the chief rule