भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

From the 12th Century A.D. to the end of the 13th Century A.D. 667. After the death of Mahmud of Ghazni, the Muslim power there grew far too weak because, in the first place, the population there consisted mainly of the aboriginal tribe converted quite recently by craft or coercion to Islam and secondly, because the Arabian Muslim States were being destroyed completely by the Mongols and the Turks, the two great Asian tribes that had not yet sworn allegiance to Islam, during their sweeping raids through the vast tract of Central Asia right up to Europe. 668. As has already been pointed out, many big and small Hindu communities and royal families ruled this region for a long time. Ghuri was one of these Hindu communities round about Ghazni, which was wholly converted to Islam during the Muslim religio-political aggressions. Being forced to follow the Muslim socio-religious practices for generations, this originally Hindu community of the Ghuries became too staunch and bigoted in their faith, that they ardently desired to rule the other Muslims in Ghazni. From the same Muslim (yet originally Hindu), Ghuri community rose to power one Mohammad Ghori, who, subjugating all the warring tribes during the internecine battles that broke out after the death of Mahmud of Ghazni, finally proclaimed himself, the Sultan of the State. In order to enlist the loyal support of all the Muslims, he made everywhere the stock-in-trade proclamation, which reverberated throughout that region and the northwest region of Hindusthan, that he would force all the kafirs (meaning Hindus) in India to accept Islam and would found an empire there. 669. However, in spite of his ambition, he could not do anything of the kind Mahmud of Ghazni had done before him in his seventeen horrible predatory raids because of the adverse circumstances. In A.D. 1176, Mohammed Ghori first captured the strong fort of Ooch near the confluence of the Panchnad with the Indus. Enraged at the weakness of her husband, the queen in the fort killed him and married her daughter to the victorious Mohammed surrendering the overlordship of the region at the same time.