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# The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c5: Chapter III

The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c5

- **Language:** English

### Chapter III

### [v3.c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c5.1)

MU‘IZZ-UD-DĪN MUHAMMAD \*BIN\* SĀM OF GHŪR AND THE EARLIER SLAVE KINGS OF DELHI

### [v3.c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c5.2)

By Lt.-Colonel Sir Wolseley Haig

### [v3.c5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c5.3)

| Ghiyās-ud-dīn and Mu‘izz-ud-dīn of Ghūr . . . . . | 38 |  
| Capture of Multān and Uch . . . . . . . | 38 |  
| Expedition to Gujarāt . . . . . . . . | 39 |  
| Annexation of the Punjab . . . . . . . | 39 |  
| Defeat of Muhammad at Tarāorī . . . . . . | 40 |  
| Muhammad’s victory at Tarāorī . . . . . . | 40 |  
| Qutb-ud-dīn Aibak . . . . . . . . . | 41 |  
| Capture of Delhi by Aibak . . . . . . . | 42 |  
| Conquest of Bihār . . . . . . . . . | 42 |  
| Conquest of the Doāb and capture of Benares . . . . | 43 |  
| Conquest of Ajmer . . . . . . . . | 43 |  
| Raid into Gujarāt . . . . . . . . . | 43 |  
| Qutb-ud-dīn Aibak appointed viceroy . . . . . . | 44 |  
| Capture of Bayāna . . . . . . . . . | 44 |  
| Defeat of Aibak by Bhīm of Gujarāt . . . . . . | 44 |  
| Raid into Gujarāt . . . . . . . . . | 44 |  
| Muhammadan administration . . . . . . . | 45 |  
| Five years’ peace in Northern India . . . . . . | 45 |  
| Conquest of Bengal . . . . . . . . . | 46 |  
| Capture of Kālinjar and Mahoba . . . . . . | 47 |  
| Rebellion in the Punjab . . . . . . . . | 47 |  
| Suppression of the rebellion . . . . . . . | 48 |  
| Death of Muhammad b. Sām . . . . . . . | 48 |  
| Qutb-ud-dīn Aibak Sultan of Delhi . . . . . . | 48 |  
| Invasion of Tibet . . . . . . . . . | 49 |

### [v3.c5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c5.4)

| | PAGE |  
| Death of Ikhtiyār-ud-dīn Muhammad | 50 |  
| Aibak captures and is expelled from Ghaznī | 50 |  
| Death of Qutb-ud-dīn Aibak and accession of Ārām Shāh | 50 |  
| Affairs of Bengal | 51 |  
| Accession of Iltutmish | 51 |  
| Defeat and death of Tāj-ud-dīn Yildiz | 52 |  
| Establishment of Iltutmish's authority in Bengal | 53 |  
| Recovery of Ranthambhor and Multān | 53 |  
| Suppression of two rebellions in Bengal | 54 |  
| Recovery of Gwalior and invasion of Mālwa | 55 |  
| The Qutb Mīnār | 55 |  
| Suppression of a rising of Ismā‘īlī heretics | 56 |  
| Death of Iltutmish. His character | 56 |  
| Rukn-ud-dīn Fīrūz | 56 |  
| Disintegration of the kingdom | 57 |  
| Deposition of Fīrūz and enthronement of Raziyya | 58 |  
| Suppression of a rising of Ismā‘īlī heretics | 59 |  
| Suppression of a rebellion in the Punjāb | 60 |  
| Deposition of Raziyya and enthronement of Bahrām | 60 |  
| Death of Raziyya | 60 |  
| The Forty Turkī nobles | 61 |  
| Mughul raids, and capture of Lahore | 62 |  
| Deposition and death of Bahrām | 63 |  
| ‘Alā-ud-dīn Mas‘ūd | 64 |  
| Defeat of the Muslims in Bengal | 65 |  
| Deposition of Mas‘ūd and enthronement of Nāsir-ud-dīn Mahmūd | 66 |  
| Ghiyās-ud-dīn Balban | 66 |  
| Expeditions into the Doāb and Mewāt | 67 |  
| Disgrace of Balban | 68 |  
| Balban's restoration to favour | 70 |  
| Rebellion in Multān and Uch | 71 |  
| Rebellion in Multān and Uch is crushed | 72 |  
| Suppression of rebellions in the Doāb and Mewāt | 72 |  
| Treaty of peace with the Mughuls | 73 |  
| Death of Nāsir-ud-dīn Mahmūd and accession of Balban | 73 |

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