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INDIAN SARACENIC AliCHlTHC'ITKK.
Book VII.
n
CHAPTER III.
PA THAN STYLE.
CONTKNTS.
Mosque at Old Delhi—Kutub .Miliar—Tomb of Ala ud-din—Pathan Tombs—
Ornamentation of Pathan Tombs.
CHRONOLOGY.
Shahab ud-dm Ghori......i.D. 1192
Kutub ud-diu Ibck....... 1000
Shum ud-din Altumsh...... 1210
Ala ud-din Khil.ji....... 1295
Tugluck Shah
Nasar ud-din last of the Khil.jis
Khyer Khan under Tamerlane .
Behloli Lodi.......
Shere Shah........
1321 Bekunder defeated bv Akbar
a.d. lans
MM
145(1
1510
1554
With all the vigour of a new race, the Ghorians set about the con-
quest of India. After sustaining a defeat in the year 1191, Shahab
ud-din again entered India in a.d. 1193, when he attacked and
defeated Prithiraj of Delhi. This success was followed by the con-
quest of Canouge in a.d. 1194; and after the fall of these two, the
capitals of the greatest empires in the peninsula, India may be
said to have been conquered before his death, which happened in
a.d. 120C.
At his death his great empire fell to pieces, and India fell to the
share of Kutub ud-din Ibek. This prince was originally a Turkish
slave, who afterwards became one of Shahab un-dln'g generals and
contributed greatly by his talents and military skill to the success of
his master. He and his successor, Altumsh, continued nobly the work
so successfully begun, and before the death of the latter, in a.d. 12iii>,
the empire of northern India had permanently passed from the hands
of the Hindus to those of their Mahomedan conquerors.
For a century and a half after the conquest the empire continued
a united whole, under Turkish, or, as they are usually called, Pathan
dynasties. These monarchs exhibited a continued vigour and energy
very unusual in the East, and not only sustained and consolidated,
but increased by successive conquests from the infidels, that newly-
acquired accession to the dominions of the faithful, and during that
lime Delhi continued practically the capital of this great empire. In
the latter half, however, of the 14th century, symptoms of disintegra-
tion manifested themselves. One after another the governors of distant
provinces reared the standard of revolt, and successfully established
INDIAN SARACENIC AliCHlTHC'ITKK.
Book VII.
n
CHAPTER III.
PA THAN STYLE.
CONTKNTS.
Mosque at Old Delhi—Kutub .Miliar—Tomb of Ala ud-din—Pathan Tombs—
Ornamentation of Pathan Tombs.
CHRONOLOGY.
Shahab ud-dm Ghori......i.D. 1192
Kutub ud-diu Ibck....... 1000
Shum ud-din Altumsh...... 1210
Ala ud-din Khil.ji....... 1295
Tugluck Shah
Nasar ud-din last of the Khil.jis
Khyer Khan under Tamerlane .
Behloli Lodi.......
Shere Shah........
1321 Bekunder defeated bv Akbar
a.d. lans
MM
145(1
1510
1554
With all the vigour of a new race, the Ghorians set about the con-
quest of India. After sustaining a defeat in the year 1191, Shahab
ud-din again entered India in a.d. 1193, when he attacked and
defeated Prithiraj of Delhi. This success was followed by the con-
quest of Canouge in a.d. 1194; and after the fall of these two, the
capitals of the greatest empires in the peninsula, India may be
said to have been conquered before his death, which happened in
a.d. 120C.
At his death his great empire fell to pieces, and India fell to the
share of Kutub ud-din Ibek. This prince was originally a Turkish
slave, who afterwards became one of Shahab un-dln'g generals and
contributed greatly by his talents and military skill to the success of
his master. He and his successor, Altumsh, continued nobly the work
so successfully begun, and before the death of the latter, in a.d. 12iii>,
the empire of northern India had permanently passed from the hands
of the Hindus to those of their Mahomedan conquerors.
For a century and a half after the conquest the empire continued
a united whole, under Turkish, or, as they are usually called, Pathan
dynasties. These monarchs exhibited a continued vigour and energy
very unusual in the East, and not only sustained and consolidated,
but increased by successive conquests from the infidels, that newly-
acquired accession to the dominions of the faithful, and during that
lime Delhi continued practically the capital of this great empire. In
the latter half, however, of the 14th century, symptoms of disintegra-
tion manifested themselves. One after another the governors of distant
provinces reared the standard of revolt, and successfully established