Mongol invasions of the Indian Subcontinent | |||||||
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Part of the Mongol invasions and conquests | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Qutlugh Khwaja (DOW) Ali beg † Tartaq † Taraghai Kopek Hiljak Iqbalmand Abdullah son of Hulagu Khan[1] Targhi Saldi Zulju Tarmashirin |
Ghiyas ud din Balban Jalal-ud-Din Khalji Alauddin Khalji Zafar Khan † Malik Kafur Ulugh Khan Nusrat Khan Jalesari Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq |
The Mongol invasions of India or the Indo-Mongol wars were a series of invasions/war by Mongols into the Indian Subcontinent. The Mongol Empire launched numerous invasions into the Indian subcontinent from 1221 to 1327, with many of the later raids made by the Qaraunas of Mongol origin. The Mongols occupied parts of the subcontinent for decades. As the Mongols progressed into the Indian hinterland and reached the outskirts of Delhi, the Delhi Sultanate of India led a campaign against them in which the Mongol army suffered serious defeats.[2]
Delhi Sultanate officials viewed war with the Mongols as one of the Sultan's primary duties. While Sultanate chroniclers described the conflicts between the pagan Mongols and a monolithic Muslim community in binary terms, the Delhi Sultanate being an island of Islamic civilization surrounded by heathens to its north and south, it ignored the fact that a large number of Sultanate elites and monarchs were of Turk/Mongol ethnicity or had previously served in their armed contingents.[3]
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