🔴 UNTOLD STORY OF A GREAT HINDU RESISTANCE IN EASTERN INDIA AGAINST BAKHTIYAR KHILJI
After the fall of Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192, Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī also known as Bakhtiyar Khilji started marching toward Eastern India with 50,000 Khilji Army.
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🔷 DESTRUCTION OF NALANDA (1193)
The great Nalanda University was ransacked and destroyed by Turkish Invaders, also called Mamluks, under Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193 AD.
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Minhaj-i Siraj wrote in his book Tabaquat-l-Nasiri about thousands of monks being burned alive and thousands beheaded.
The burning of the library continued for several months and smoke from the burning manuscripts hung for days like a dark pall over the low hills.