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Ghaznavid Sultan Mas'ud's eastern campaigns
Around 1033 Ghaznavid Sultan Mas'ud I, after consolidating Khurasan and the Afghan heartland, launched a military expedition into northwest India to …
Timeline
- 1032–1033Ghazni · AfghanistanMas'ud I assembled his army at Ghazni and passed south through the Hindu Kush passes into the Punjab plains, preparing a new round of campaigns against the Hindu states.
- 1033–1034Lahore · PunjabGhaznavid forces captured or threatened Punjab's cities, plundered temple wealth, and forced local princes into tribute and vassalage, consolidating control of the northwest Indian corridor.
- 1034–1035Northwest India frontier · Northwest IndiaMas'ud led his army back north toward Khurasan, leaving governors to hold Lahore and other strongpoints. Though the expedition failed to permanently annex India's heartland, Ghaznavid influence over northwest India reached its height.
Sources
- The Later Ghaznavids: Splendour and Decay — Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1977)
- The Cambridge History of India, Volume 3: Turks and Afghans — W. Haig (1928)