Establishment of the Delhi Sultanate
The establishment of the Delhi Sultanate (late 12th–early 13th centuries) emerged from a chain of Ghurid victories that dismantled major ...
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Second Battle of Tarain (1192)
The Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 pitted Muhammad of Ghor’s reorganized, mobile cavalry army against Prithviraj Chauhan’s numerically superior ...
Chola Naval Expedition to Southeast Asia
The Chola thrust into Southeast Asia—culminating in Rajendra Chola I’s 1025 CE strike on the Srivijaya network—was the most audacious ...
Reign of Raja Raja Chola I
Raja Raja Chola I (r. 985–1014 CE), born Arulmozhi Varman, transformed the medieval Chola state into a centralized, thalassocratic empire ...
Rajput Kingdoms
The Rajput age in North and Central India broadly spans the 7th to 12th centuries CE, when the disintegration of ...
Reign of Harshavardhana
Harshavardhana (r. c. 606–647 CE), known as Śilāditya in inscriptions, rebuilt a northern empire after the Gupta decline by uniting ...
Reign of Chandragupta II – Vikramaditya
Chandragupta II (c. 375–414/15 CE) led the Gupta Empire through its most expansive and prosperous phase by dismantling the Western ...
Reign of Samudragupta
Samudragupta (c. 335–375 CE) expanded a Gupta heartland into a northern empire through sequential campaigns recorded in the Prayaga‑Prashasti, celebrated ...
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