The immemorial systems, rules and customs of Ancient India were invaded, subdued and modified by a succession of foreign conquerors who imposed new rules and introduced an exotic creed, strange languages and a foreign art. Their invasion started with the raid of the Muslim Arabs in Sind and with the arrival of the Turks under Mahmud the Iconoclast at the beginning of the eleventh century, India entered upon her Middle Age. This volume talks about the Indian history of over a 1,000 years, from 712-1764 with the raid of the Arabs in the Sind to the decline of the Moghul empire, featuring the Turks, Persians and Afghans (Moghuls) and specifies that the age-old Indian life outlived the shock of the new ideas, religion and culture that were imposed on India’s polity. India never assimilated the foreigners or their ideas. Barring Akbar the Great, that too at a minuscule level, no one could make much influence on them. Therefore, these foreigners remained essentially as an army of occupation among a hostile or repellent population, making the history of the Mohammedan Period more of a chronicle of kings, courts and conquest than of organic or national growth, stimulating and instructive. Contents: DETAILS ISBN: 9788193607695 Year Of Publication: 2021 Edition: 2nd Pages : 449 Bibliographic Details : Index Language : English Binding : Hardcover Publisher: Suryodaya Books Size: 22 Weight: 720 OVERVIEW The immemorial systems, rules and customs of Ancient India were invaded, subdued and modified by a succession of foreign conquerors who imposed new rules and introduced an exotic creed, strange languages and a foreign art. Their invasion started with the raid of the Muslim Arabs in Sind and with the arrival of the Turks under Mahmud the Iconoclast at the beginning of the eleventh century, India entered upon her Middle Age. This volume talks about the Indian history of over a 1,000 years, from 712-1764 with the raid of the Arabs in the Sind to the decline of the Moghul empire, featuring the Turks, Persians and Afghans (Moghuls) and specifies that the age-old Indian life outlived the shock of the new ideas, religion and culture that were imposed on India’s polity. India never assimilated the foreigners or their ideas. Barring Akbar the Great, that too at a minuscule level, no one could make much influence on them. Therefore, these foreigners remained essentially as an army of occupation among a hostile or repellent population, making the history of the Mohammedan Period more of a chronicle of kings, courts and conquest than of organic or national growth, stimulating and instructive. CONTENTS Book I The Invasions, 712-1206 Chapter I. Introduction — The Arabs in Sind, 712 II. The Idol- Breakers — Mahmud of Ghazni, 997-1030 III. The Men of the Mountain — ghazni and ghor, 1030-1206 Book II The Kingdom of Delhi, 1206-1526 IV. The slave king — The Turks in Delhi, 1206- 1290 V. First Deccan conquests — ALA-AD-DIN KHALJI, 1290-1321 VI. A man of Ideas — Mohammad Taghlak, 1321-1388 VII. Disintegration — Provincial Dynasties, 1388-1451 Book III The Moghul Empire, 1526-1764 VIII. The coming of the Moghuls — The Emperor Babar, 1451-1530 IX. The EBB of the tide — Humayun, 1530-1556 X. The United Empire — Akbar, 1556-1605 XI. Akbar’s Reforms — The Divine Faith, 1566-1605 XII. The Great Moghul — And European Travellers, 1605-1627 XIII. Shah-Jahan — The Magnificent, 1628-1658 XIV. The Puritan Emperor — Aurangzib, 1659-1680 XV. The Ruin of Aurangzib — The Maratha war, 1680-1707 XVI. The fall of the Moghul empire — The Hindu revival, 1707-1765 Mohammedan Dynasties Index