Decline of the Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty (1020s)

Name: Decline of the Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty (1020s)
Start: 1020
End: 1029

Type Event Region North India Time 1020–1029

The Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty, once ruling most of North India with its capital at Kanauj, was by the 1020s a dynasty in name only.

Timeline

1020–1023Kanauj (Kannauj) · North IndiaAfter Mahmud of Ghazni's 1018 expedition sacked Kanauj, Pratihara central authority collapsed; late rulers such as Rajapala held only nominal rule and could not prevent vassal defections and the rise of local strongmen.
1024–1029Ganges Plain · North IndiaThe Gahadavalas rose at Kanauj while the Chandellas and Kalachuris expanded their power, and Pratihara remnants shrank further; the concept of a North Indian 'empire' gave way to a network of regional dynasties, creating conditions for the later northward advance of Turkic-Muslim powers.

The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, Vol. II — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson (1869)
History of India, Vol. III: Hindu Civilisation during the Medieval Period — R. C. Majumdar (ed.) (1957)