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The Turkish Invasions

ICSE · Class 7 · History & Civics

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Arab Invasion and Early Contacts

  • The Arabs were the first Muslim conquerors of India.
  • Sindh was attacked by the Arabs for the first time in the beginning of CE 712.
  • Muhammad-bin-Qasim, an Umayyad General, conquered Sindh and Punjab.
2

Mahmud of Ghazni

  • Mahmud of Ghazni was the first Turkish invader of India.
  • He was the ruler of Ghazni.
  • During his thirty-three-year reign, he carried out seventeen raids on India.
3

Muhammad Ghori and Turkish Rule

  • Muhammad Ghori was the ruler of a small kingdom and ascended the throne at Ghazni in CE 1173.
  • Muhammad Ghori attacked India about 150 years after Mahmud's invasions.
  • Five Rajput kingdoms were in power at the time of his invasion.
4

Causes of Turkish Success

  • The Rajputs lacked political unity and were busy fighting each other.
  • Rajput chiefs were jealous of each other.
  • Rajputs had no standing army of their own.

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