Final Collapse of the Hindu Shahi's Remnants in the 1060s

Name: Final Collapse of the Hindu Shahi's Remnants in the 1060s
Start: 1060
End: 1068

Type Event Region Pakistan Time 1060–1068

The Hindu Shahi dynasty, an important barrier in northwestern India before the Ghaznavid invasions, had already seen its core collapse in the early 1…

Timeline

1061–1064Gandhara · PakistanAfter Bhimapala (r. ca. 1022–1042), the Hindu Shahi retained only local nobles and some fortresses; in the early 1060s they maintained nominal resistance in Gandhara and northern Punjab but could no longer restore independent kingdom status.
1065–1068Northwestern Punjab · PunjabIn the mid-to-late 1060s, the Hindu Shahi's remaining fortresses and local chieftains gradually submitted to or were replaced by the Ghaznavid governorate of Lahore; the Shahi title and independent political tradition ended, and northwestern India entered a new phase of divided rule by the Ghaznavids and emerging local Rajputs.

Sources

The Hindu Shahi Kingdom of Afghanistan and the Punjab — Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Early Medieval India — R. C. Majumdar