High Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1001
Mahmud of Ghazni's first Indian raid
1001
At Peshawar the Turkic sultan crushed the Hindu Shahi king Jayapala, opening the gates of the Punjab to two decades of lucrative Ghaznavid plunder. The defeated raja, humiliated, built his own pyre and climbed onto it, unwilling to live as a captive of a Muslim lord. Mahmud's campaigns would eventually strip the subcontinent's temple treasuries of gold on a scale not seen before.
In context
Also in 1001 (3 other events on record)
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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