Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.64

c10.64

WE now reach the period of the House of Ghūr, under which learning did not fare so well as it did under the House of Ghaznī. The first chapter of Ghūrī history is associated with the vandalism of ’Alāuddīn Ghūrī, under whose orders, the city of Ghaznī, perhaps the noblest and the most beautiful in the whole of Asia at the time—