High Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1175
Muhammad of Ghor invades northern India
1175
The Afghan sultan, brother of the ruler of Ghor, crossed the Indus with a small force of mailed horsemen and Turkic slave-soldiers and began probing the rajput kingdoms of the upper Ganges. Within two decades he would overturn the political order of northern India. His initial raids tested the defenses of Multan and Gujarat, revealing a fractured Hindu political landscape that offered no coordinated resistance to a determined invader.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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