TNPSC Group 1 Notes - Indian History
THE COMING OF ARABS
1. The Arabs were the first Muslims to cast their covetous eyes on India attack it.
2. Incensed by certain pirates of Debal, Al-Hajjaj, the governor of Iraq sent Mohammad Bin Qasim to punish the Indian King. In 712 A.D. Near Raor, Dahir was beaten and killed.
3. In 1014 A.D. Mahmud took Thaneshwar and burnt the temple of Mathura. In 1018 he sacked Kanauj. In 1022-23, he received submission of Gwalior and Kalinjar. In 1025 he destroyed the Somnath Temple in Kathiawar. Between 1000 to 1026 A.D. he made 17 incursions into India.
4. Al-Beruni, was in the court of Mahmud Ghazni and he came to India with him and wrote the famous Treatise ‘Kitab-ul-Hind’.
5. Firdausi (the author of Shahnama) and Utbi also adorned Muhammad Ghazni’s court.
6. Muhammad Ghur was defeated by Prithviraj Chauhan in the first battle of Tarain in 1191 but the former defeated the letter in the second battle of Tarain in 1192 and founded Muslim rule in India.