The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c20.22

c20.22

The Muslim historians who wrote accounts of the relations of Sabuktigin and Mahmūd of Ghaznī in the latter half of the tenth century and the first half of the 11th century A.D. do not display any deep knowledge of Indian political conditions and view all events from Ghaznī. But the incidental touches in their writings fully confirm the previous conclusions. Al'Utbī, author of Tārīkh Yamīnī or Kitābu-l Yamīnī speaks of the vassals collected by Jaipāl for his march on Afghānistān which, after the Arab occupation of Sindh, represented the first armed conflict between Hindus and Musalmāns.⁴ Again, there is a reference