The first Muslim invasion of Southern India occurred in 1296 CE. The raid on Devagiri, the capital of the Yadava kingdom ruled by Ramchandra, took place during the reign of Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji. The expedition itself was secretly planned and ...
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Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji was crowned in the palace of Kilokhari and made it his capital after overthrowing the weakened successors of Balban. Kilokhari offered strategic and administrative advantages. His coronation there symbolized the rise of the Khalji dynasty and marked ...
The label Rasm-e-Miyan (the middle way) and Tariq-e-Itdal reflect a pragmatic fiscal policy of moderation attributed to Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, who aimed for balanced revenue measures — contrasting extremes — to stabilise agrarian productivity and state finances. ANSWER: (B) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Nalanda University was destroyed during the invasions led by Bakhtiyar Khilji, a Turkic Muslim general under Muhammad Ghori. He attacked Bihar around 1202–03, burning libraries and killing monks. This assault ended Nalanda’s centuries-old tradition as a global centre of Buddhist ...
Alberuni visited India during Mahmud Ghaznavi’s rule. A brilliant scholar, he accompanied Mahmud’s campaigns and studied Indian culture, religion, mathematics and sciences. His work Kitab-ul-Hind provides an objective and detailed description of India in the early 11th century. Alberuni’s writings ...