A History of Agriculture in India v2.c55.s1: Sabaktigin

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Alpatgin, a Turk serving Abdul Malik, the Samanid king of Bokhara, settled at Ghazni with about eight hundred followers, in A.D. 961. Alpatgin died in A.D. 969. Sabaktigin, originally a Turki slave of the governor of Khorasan, married Alpatgin’s daughter. He carved out from himself a kingdom at Ghazni in A.D. 977. Sabaktigin made his first raid into India and conquered Peshawar from Jaipal in A.D. 991.