High Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1192
Second Battle of Tarain
1192
Muhammad of Ghor, smarting from his defeat the previous year, returned to the field near Delhi with twelve thousand mounted archers and routed Prithviraj Chauhan's Rajput confederacy. The battle ended independent Hindu power in northern India for six centuries and opened the gates of the Gangetic plain. The speed of the Ghurid conquest astonished contemporaries and left the Rajput kingdoms fragmented and demoralized.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.