Second Battle of Tarain | |||||||||
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Part of Indian campaigns of Muhammad of Ghor | |||||||||
The last stand of Rajputs, painted by Allan Stewart for Hutchinson & co. | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Ghurid Empire | Rajput Confederacy | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Muhammad Ghuri Qutubuddin Aibak Bahauddin Tughril Husain Kharmil Taj al-Din Yildiz Nasir ad-Din Qabacha Muhammad bin Mahmud Khalji Mukalba Kharbak[1] |
Prithviraj Chauhan Govind Rai † Samantsingh † [2] Badamsa Rawal Bhola Vijayraj †[3] Harapal Parmar † Rajpal Parmar † Rana Motishvara †[4] | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
120,000 (according to Minhaj)[5][6] | 300,000 (likely exaggeration) [a][8][b] | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Unknown | 100,000 according to Hasan Nizami[9] | ||||||||
The Second Battle of Tarain was fought in 1192 between the Ghurid forces of Muhammad Ghuri and the Rajput Confederacy of Prithviraj Chauhan. It took place near Tarain (modern Taraori), which is 110 kilometres (68 mi), north of Delhi. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the invading Ghurids and their successful penetration in north Indian plain.
The battle is regarded as a watershed event in Medieval India history as it led to the destruction of Rajput powers for a while and laid the foundation of Muslim rule in North India, which led to the establishment of Delhi Sultanate.[10][11]
It was a similar combination of political and economic imperatives which led Muhmmad Ghuri, a Turk, to invade India a century and half later in 1192. His defeat of Prithviraj Chauhan, a Rajput chieftain, in the strategic battle of Tarain in northern India paved the way for the establishment of first Muslim sultante
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