The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c10.8

c10.8

For the first time since Aibak’s days a native army invested a Muslim city and returned unmolested. It produced no tangible military result, except, possibly, the loss of the Lakhanor frontier station, but it thoroughly demonstrated the Sultanate’s weakness. The moral effect was almost magical and within a few years the whole of Hindu India awakened to aggressive military action.