High Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1007
Mahmud of Ghazni raids Bhatinda
1007
The Turkic sultan pushed deeper into the Punjab plain, seizing fortress towns and carrying off plunder that funded his growing capital at Ghazni. Each raid tested Hindu Shahi defenses further, probing toward the rich temple cities of the Gangetic heartland that Mahmud's chroniclers described with undisguised avarice and religious zeal.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.