Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter XV
Mohammed Ghori
- In 1176 A.D., Ghori captured the strong fort of Ooch in Panchnad.
- After the death of King of Gujarat, his minor son was enthroned. This led Ghori to think the Kingdom is weak so he attacked it. The Queen herself fought with him at the mountain ranges of Abu. She urged all the soldiers to t defend the infant king.
- Inflamed by her words the whole Hindu army fought so furiously that Muslims were routed in all directions and led Ghori escaped narrowly beyond borders.
- in 1191 A.D, Ghori attacked Delhi ruled by then Prithviraj Chouhan. He was defeated in the famous Battle of Talavadi but let go by Prithviraj.
- But Ghori attacked again in 1193 A.D. After a fierce battle and with the help of traitor Jaychand the King of Kanouj, Ghori won the battle and went straight to Delhi.
- News of defeat reached before him, hundreds of Hindu women along with Princes Sanyogita performed Jayhar - Johar. Many leapt into the river Yamuna.
- After plundering and destroying royal palaces, Ghori appointed a trusted slave Kutubuddin as Chief Administrator and went back to Ghazni.
- In 1195, Ghori along with Kutubuddin attacked Kanouj and Killed Jayachand.
- Hearing of Kashi as the holiest of Hindu places of worship, he headed straight for it in order to destroy Hindu religion.
- As Kashi was totally unaware and unprepared for this. Ghori captured Kashi in no time.
- Ghori slaughtered Hindu men and women, plundered Hindu houses, ravished Hindu women and forced converted thousands to Islam and slavery.
- Soon after reaching Ghazni, Ghori was killed. A detailed account can be found in 'Prithviraj Raso' by Chand Bhat.
Prithviraj Raso
- After defeat of Prithviraj, he was taken to Ghazni as a captive and his eyes were taken out.
- After hearing this Chand went to Ghazni on his own. Charans and Bhats were supposed to bear a charmed life, were not to be killed.
- Chand requested in poetic sense to Ghori, to kill him as well. But before Killing Prithviraj Sultan should witness a demonstration of the exceptional skill of my master in the wonderful art of hitting the sound in archery.
- Arrangements with precautions were made. 21 Pans were hanged. One of one Prithviraj stuck all of them. Whole court was thrilled with wonder and finally Sultan himself shouted aloud 'shabas' shabas - bravo.
- At this very moment Chand composed a couplet telling Prithviraj to kill Sultan shouting 'Shabas' right now.
- Prithviraj took an aim and shot the Sultan at once.
- Before the guards can fall on them, both Prithviraj and Chand Bhat drew out their own swords and cut off their own heads.
The Slave Dynasty and Fictitious Story of Kutubminar
- After Ghori, his slave Kutubuddin, himself became Sultan and established his independent kingdom in Delhi.
- The legend that he built famous Kutubminar as a memorial to his victory is altogether false.
- This was built by a certain Hindu emperor, most probably by Samudra Gupta and was dedicated to Lord Vishnu.
- Recent excavations discovered an ancient idol of Shree Vishnu near pillar supports this assertion. Thereafter Prithviraj improved it to great extent, so it was called as Prithvistambh.
- While Kutubuddin was conquering the Punjab, Delhi, Kanouj and other Hindu states, he was uneasy about the Rajput states.
- After the death of Rana Samarsingh of Chitod, his minor son Karna was throned. He attacked Chitod. But the mother of minor King Karna, Karundevi was very brave. She took charge of the army and inspired neighboring Hindu states to come together and defeat Kutubuddin.
- Kutubuddin was defeated in the battle of Ambar(Amber or Amer). He fled back to Delhi.
- When Rana Rahup succeeded Karna, Kutubuddin attacked Chitod again but was routed . He never attacked Chitod till Rana Rahup death.
- In all these episodes, Hindu never invaded Muslim kingdoms or pursued them in the battle field till their destruction all because of their perverted sense of virtues.
- After Kutubuddin's death in 1210 A.D., in between 2-3 incapable ruler came. Finally Sultana Razia began to rule.
- She fell in love to a slave later on named Jalaluddin. This was not acceptable to Turkish noblemen as Jalaluddin was negro. This also proves that there was caste difference existed within Muslims as well contrary to their claims.
- Turkish noblemen under leadership of Altunia rose against her and defeated her in the battle.
- She cast some sort of spell on Altunia and married him. But they were killed by the noblemen and the army. Finally 'Bulban' from Slave Dynasty became the Sultan of Delhi.
Mongol Raids - Chengeezkhan
Khilji Dynasty
- During the reign of Slave dynasty, Mongols raids the farthest borders of India's, causing troubles. Their leader Chengeezkhan, deposed and killed the Khaliph of Baghdad, whom muslims respected as representative of God and razed the City of Baghdad to ground. Yet the Allah could do absolutely nothing against him.
- Chengeezkhan overthrew the kingdom of Kiev in Russia, ravaged whole tract straight upto the Black Sea. He went straight to Mongolia after defeating kingdom of Ghazni. He died in 1227 A.D.
- One after effect of Mongol-Turkish struggle is that they had a mixed Progeny which was called Moghal or Mughal. They reached till Delhi but was not accepted by Old muslims as these were considered low-born. They founded a separate colony in Delhi by name 'Moghalpura'.
- Bulban was very cruel against Hindus. He died in 1286 A.D. There was no able heir to lead him. In four years a nobleman from the Khilji family Jalaluddin, killed all sons and grandsons of Bulban and proclaimed himself the Sultan of Delhi.
Khilji Dynasty
- Jalaluddin called itself Pathans (Afghans) if at all it was of Turkish extraction. Seeing the tremendous loss of Muslim lives in the siege of Ratanbhor he raised the siege and decamped saying, 'I value a single hair of a Muslim more than a hundred such forts'. But all proved hollow, he was devasted by the Rajputs and after this failure never again troubled the Rajputs.
- Old Jalalluddin wanted to enthrone his Muslim nephew Allauddin after his own death. So he send himwith a large army to face the Rajputs. But this looks very small assignment to Allauddin.
- He straight went to attack Southern Hindu states without taking permission from Sultan. The first Hindu state to fall a victim of this unexpected attack of Allauddin was that of the Yadava of Devgiri.
- Hindu society of South for almost 2 thousand years been enjoying complete political, religious and social independence and had been economically highly prosperous.
- So this invasion of Allauddin was the first of its kind and was bound to be successful with far reaching harmful effects.