⚔ Conquest / annexation
Bakhtiyar Khalji takes Nadia
c. 1204 – present · 📍 Nabadwip
What it led to: Lakshmana Sena fled to east Bengal and Turkish rule began in Bengal.
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1194 ⚔ Battle of Chandawar · Ghurid Empire
- c. 1200 Destruction of Nalanda
- c. 1203 Destruction of Vikramashila
- 1206 Delhi Sultanate founded · Mamluk (Slave) Dynasty
- 1211 Iltutmish becomes sultan · Mamluk (Slave) Dynasty
Alive at the time
Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
c. 1141 – c. 1236
Sufi saint who established the Chishti order in India at Ajmer
Kambanactive c. 1180
Author of the Tamil Ramavataram (Kamba Ramayanam)
Jayadevaactive c. 1180
Author of the Gita Govinda
Chand Bardaiactive c. 1190
Court poet credited with the Prithviraj Raso
Chinggis Khanc. 1162 – c. 1227
Mongol conqueror who reached the Indus in 1221
🕸 Connections 21 links
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🗂 Era 1
- Medieval IndiaPart of this era
⏳ Periods 1
- Regional Kingdoms & Ghaznavid/Ghurid ExpansionBelongs to this period
🏛 Kingdoms & empires 5
- Chahamanas (Chauhans) of Shakambhari 650 CE – 1194Existed at the same time (19 years)
- Chola Empire 848 CE – 1279Existed at the same time (31 years)
- Ghaznavid Empire 977 CE – 1186Existed at the same time (11 years)
- Polonnaruwa Kingdom 1070 – 1232Existed at the same time (31 years)
- Sultanate of the Maldives 1153 – 1968Existed at the same time (31 years)
👑 Rulers 2
- Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad 1163 – 1203Ruled it
- Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad (Muhammad of Ghor) 1173 – 1206Ruled it
⚔ Events 6
- Second Battle of Tarain 1192Happened in it
- Muhammad of Ghor takes Multan 1175Happened in it
- Ghurids take Lahore, ending the Ghaznavids 1186Happened in it
- Minaret of Jam built c. 1190Happened in it
- Battle of Chandawar 1194Happened in it
- Bakhtiyar Khalji takes Nadia c. 1204Happened in it
📍 Places & sites 1
- Minaret of Jam c. 1190A place of this polity
📄 Research 3
- How feudal was Indian feudalism? R. S. Sharma · 1985Research on this topic
- Was there feudalism in Indian history? Harbans Mukhia · 1981Research on this topic
- Political Processes and Structure of Polity in Early Medieval India: Problems o… B. D. Chattopadhyaya · 1985Research on this topic
📚 Books 2
- Our Pasts I, II & III (Classes 6–8) NCERTRecommended reading
- Themes in Indian History, Parts I–III (Class 12) NCERTRecommended reading