Sher Khan defeated _________ at Chausa (1539) and Kanauj (1540), forcing him to flee to Iran.
Humayun
Sher Khan (later Sher Shah Suri) defeated the second Mughal emperor Humayun at the Battle of Chausa (1539) — after which he assumed the title Sher Shah — and again at the Battle of Kanauj/Bilgram (1540). Humayun fled westward and eventually took refuge in Safavid Persia (Iran) under Shah Tahmasp I.
Aurangzeb, Muhammad Azam Shah, and Bahadur Shah I belong to the late 17th–early 18th century and are chronologically impossible.
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