India's Muslim rulers frustrated every effort of Mongols to invade India. While #Mongols were ravaging world, from China to Iran, Turkey, Central Asia, Baghdad, Russia n entire Europe, they miserably failed to conquer India. They were repeatedly beaten by Muslim rulers.
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In 1297, Kadar from Mongol Chagatai Khanate invaded India ruled. They ravaged the Punjab region. Alauddin sent an army led by his brother Ulugh Khan to check their advance. They defeated invaders on 6 Feb 1298, killing around 20,000 of them, and forcing the Mongols to flee.
According to the contemporary chronicler Amir Khusrau's Dawal Rani, battle was fought on the banks of the Sutlej River. The name of the place appears as "Jadwa o Manjur" in various manuscripts of Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi,, a work by the near-contemporary chronicler Ziauddin Barani.
Firishta (16th century) states that the battle was fought near Lahore, which is located around 130 km from Jalandhar. `Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (16th century) names the site as Jaran Manjur. Nizamuddin Ahmad Harawi (17th century) states that the site was located in Sindh.
Ulugh Khan ordered soldiers to cross the Sutlej. Khusrau says 20,000 Mongols were killed in ensuing battle. He boasts that the Mongols "fled like ants and locusts, and were trampled like ants". The prisoners were brought to Delhi, where they were trampled to death by elephants
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