The Turkish conquest of the subcontinent is …
Years: 1108 - 1251
The Turkish conquest of the subcontinent is a long, drawn-out process covering several centuries.
It had begun in Afghanistan with the military forays of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1001.
By the early thirteenth century, Bengal falls to Turkish armies.
The last major Hindu Sena ruler is expelled from his capital at Nadia in western Bengal in 1202, although lesser Sena rulers hold sway for a short while after in eastern Bengal.
Locations
Groups
- Hinduism
- Bengalis
- Buddhism
- Islam
- Senas of Bengal, Kingdom of the
- Delhi, Sultanate of (Ghurid Dynasty)
- Delhi, Sultanate of (Mamluk or Ghulam Dynasty)
