First battle of Tarain
If we look back, thousands of wars have been fought on the soil of India; monumental wars, legendary wars, but in my view, the two most important battles which were fought and impacted very deeply on the history of India, as well as the future of India, were the battles of tarain. In this blog and one upcoming blog, I will try to do an in-depth analysis of these two battles. Let's have a look at the map where both the battles of Tarain have been fought in 1191 and 1192. Source: Wikipedia In the above map of India of 1191-92, you can see that India was divided into several kingdoms and was disturbed internally with each other and was fighting internally for valor and power. External powers such as ghurids took advantage of this weakness. On that map, we can see the ghurid empire led by Mohammad Ghori was spread all over the parts of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Now his new target was India and he knew the importance of north India. He didn’t know that it