Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c9.9

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In Madhya Desa (Upper Ganges Valley) the Kalachuri kings had made themselves masters of Allahabad, Banaras and the Southern Doab, and had pushed their conquests southwards as far as Kalinga But they were opposed by a hostile combination of the rulers of Gujarat, Malwa and the Deccan, losing in the process the control of Madhya Desa to the Gahadvalas. Govind Chandra, the Gahadvala prince (1104-1114) and ruler (1114-1154) successfully repulsed Turkish attacks on northern Avadh, Banaras and other Buddhist and Hindu holy places. But the rivalry of the Gahadvalas with the Chauhans, who had set up an empire in the west with seats at Delhi and Ajmer, came to an end only when Muhammad Ghori had destroyed the scions of both houses—Prithviraj Chouhan and Jaya Chandra (Jai Chand) at the close of the twelfth century.