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395:- Muhammad conferred Iltutmish with a robe of honour for his heroic performance in the battle. He also ordered the deed of manumission on him and freed him of his mawālī obligations despite the fact that his master Qutb al-Din Aibak was not manumitted until then. The campaign against the Khokhars also yielded Muhammad an enormous amount of slaves and booty. 378:
on the next day, where son of an eminent Khokhar chief who was in possession of a strong citadel from where they were raiding the Ghurid domains, surrendered it to the Ghurids after a brief siege and accepted Muhammad's suzerainty. After capitulation of the citadel, several Khokhars who took refuge
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The Khokhars were thus subdued by Muhammad with a great deal of barbarity as a large number of them were massacred and many were taken as prisoners who were subsequently converted to
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through Sirajuddin Abu Bakar, startled by the situation, Muhammad summarily made arrangements to crush the Khokhar uprising and thus, himself advanced with a large army from
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in course of which the Khokhars offered a stiff resistance from early morning until the sunset and nearly carried the day, although the timely arrival of Aibak and
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in it after their defeat a day before in the pitched battle, fled to the nearby forest which was callously burnt down by Muhammad and his army.
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and pillaged the whole countryside. The Khokhars further made a thurst for annexation of Lahore by cutting off the roads between
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The battle was the last involving Muhammad of Ghor, who was assassinated on his way back to his capital on 15 March 1206 at
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When the forces of Qutubuddin Aibak gathered to join Muhammad, the Khokhar rebels made an attempt to stop him crossing the
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decided the issue in favour of Muhammad who restored to a mass slaughter of the Khokhars after their victory.
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river and join his master but were defeated and crushed. A pitched battle took place between the rivers
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in his florid "Taj-ul-Masir" exemplify the role of Iltutmish during the battle and hailed him as the "
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Politics and Society During the Early Medieval Period: Collected Works of Professor Mohammad Habib
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After crushing the Khokhar insurrection in Lahore and granting Qutubuddin Aibak to leave for
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to deal with Khokhars and his forces were further augmented by the Indian contingents under
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The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World
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during the winters of 1205. Furthermore, Muhammad directed his lieutenant
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region then to join the Ghurid forces with their respective contingents.
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After routing the Khokhars, Muhammad marched further in the
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with several uprisings against the authority of Muhammad.
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Chronicler Ibn al-Athir mentioned him as a Muslim convert
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The most potent of these insurrections were from the
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itself. Hence, Muhammad of Ghor himself marched from
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and the support of warriors of faith was the second
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who was in charge of Delhi along with Aibak's slave
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Battle of Jhelum (disambiguation)
Indian campaigns of Muhammad of Ghor
Jhelum River
Pakistan
Ghurid Empire
Khokhars
Muhammad of Ghor
Iltutmish
Qutubuddin Aibak
Jhelum
Pakistan
Khokhars
Ghurid
Muhammad of Ghor
Salt Range
Ghurids
Battle of Andkhud
Pothohar Plateau
Lahore
Ghazna
Qutubuddin Aibak
Iltutmish
Dhamiak
Ghurid
Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad
dyarchy
Muhammad of Ghor
Khwarezmian Empire
Andhkhud
Khurasan

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