Having deeen defeated in the tisvart utottle o

Tarain (1191 LE) MuhCyYmdd oGhus madeusuous

pEpaAticno to. avenge his dekeat. He Laonehed an
expedtuen againat ithvisiaj Chauhan and dyeted
hm n the DECCNd bMttle cTaaUn (11c2 CE).
 YaO Neaseno wene Put toauwand do explaun the
CCe
otGhuoido ovea the Rajputo.B9ution rutooiom ke
ELphitone, lane Pooe, v.A.Smih hove ancübed tHot the thuskds
wene aom eeld -cimotes and
wee non-vegetasuann.But
hiotoiaro ike AL Soiatava have tued to asgue that thene
wee
non-vejEtaaian Hindus a well \and eating habits alone
do not moke sightes:
Histoguano Jike LP.Shaama, .N.Ghoshal ae o the
opinien hat he tuekish invadem uwere tull o éigious zea
they wene putto nead. Ialam by honce e oms)Thun, the
urvadoa haught toa a caue ohile the Rojputo had nothig
bete than, clan c2 clam inteaerto to dejend{Thaghi, KA
Vi2omi, uin hio bootk Some speeto of Religion,ard Pitica dn
hdia dusùng the 13th eentuay, hao atoted thak the Tuks
mught háve mown at times cude 9eligiu zeal but
thot wao posing mocd and not a 'pemanent objecuvepa
naing motive o then. comoigns
adunath Sankan haa pointed out in ho book Mili tan
Hstony o Tndia thot thè unvadoan were tull og thaee
ehoactesintic alamie vi9tues that helped them to pventhao
tie Raiputo . Thexe' wene:- Raat, comphete equality and Aorial
olidosity an nepads legal atatuo and reigiouo pvilege
Decond tataliomi pirging hom an absoute eliance cn
Aod his bed contempt t death n jghtin9.Thirnd,they
ee72ee om daunem. n thie othe Hond,while
dinlàng wao.the uun ot the Rajputo and made hem ncapa
e oa9-aighted militooy planning conductirg uspine,
Oceven quanding thein um camps l t h piopes poiecaution.
Elphinatone ús-o the opirien that the Ghueido ueAe
wRalike ond tought the Tootar» ond the Seljuks.Gnthe
centaty, the Indian ere paajiat oand not given to ui)
They were divided uinto mall atotes which hampered
expanaisniat ambihiervo This, howevexignoned the tact'
thot Mwalim hegie tell behone the Mengels uithoicta
bight n 1218-20 cÉ and that the Roiputo whe aced tha
Toko weNe net exactiy lacking in braveAY MAKtIal
,

niut and couAagE .

Lackocertealised powes wao an iportart octo
un emoeulating he ntrength and erticieney ohe 0mL
beces.Faheu mudabti Jn hia'Adab-ul Hanb wa al-Sar
aietes that Tndian fonces ceniated o eudal lavies. so,
the ny Jacked Urity ot comunand o each
mil1 tasyy
 /Cortungs
ingent wO0
ndeh the command okimmediate chie
arnd
and not thot
ot the king.
Anothe ùmporont nenoon
ho the uccem otne
Tunk o 0 *hein upeica mili
taay technology and ant oE
Tthey divided theu
0Smies unto tve nectienn : advanced
quac
auard and
n ereNeA deside the thoee poste which made aa

tal attock on the,enemy.On the

Jiided thein Ghmies into theee thehand,Indiam
divioieno
(Tndian mulitaay dtaateqy atreved on weight, 9athen,on
en obuty. n the conteoy he
Tuks had a well-equu ea
CavolayThey uoed inon-Jatisnup and honoe-phees whie ho7e
phoes govided 2eates metility to the
hoane, Jti9Auup
gese the oldien diatinet odvantoge
ack oh motility was
onothe,deilitoding weaknes otthé Indiar )Ina numbea
b-occami en the tortune o was wene AeNvesved when
he elephants qet 1ightened and behaved evaticolly
Thie oecond tacticol advantoge aktea motiity uhich the
Tunkiph aamy had ove the Tndiano wos
thei eticieney
wn 0nchesy.
They wee to
ake shoot asouz faoin the
|ooldle omoving hone and ths wese mo9E
deadly
than the Od-uielding alow moving Rajpeto
Acconding to KA
Ni2ami, the caate atem dlmot uünad
he militasy ethiieney ot the Raiputo
The cuatem e phyoical
polludien by touch made, dininlen o labaun
oLdien among thee
umpossilsle and the men wese nequined to clo
all oeato et woak, baom sghting to hekching the watea
Hiatoiano dike KANizami, AL Saivatava 0ne othe
opinion that the maes did net NLaUy Co-openate
uith Raiput Jeadeo
,)A.L 5ivaatava, un ho book The
Sultanote ok Delhi, wo ohe qpinien
that had thepeople
beccme he reccnd line ch dejence behurd oua
tacops the
Raput uules would not have ataked eveaything ori the
iue ota ingle cortet and muat
hove"mde
epeated attempts at eiatonee.
CC The Rajputs negaadedi the Satie as a qame ultha
code o conduct in which they eeuld ohow hey alt,
ubavey and chivaly They pided dhemoelves en thea
Votucdamanohip. ABM Habibullah, ün i book Foundabten
o Mualim ulé un Tndia, atates thot Rajput neckenne
ha dinelemert ot 20manceun ut but s o itte
pactical uindem. Acbo-ding to N Ghothal, the Rajputa,
in panticlan, althcug thoy wee noted toa theis
bnavery and contémpt of deotth, wese nopised bya high
-
enne ochivala and militay honouh which made
them ten untit oa iccey in paekical watane.
Ao the daek ot arny emctional idea fo Fahting ooo a
cauae ton he dejeot ot the Rajputo .They werie tghting
o2 mohighen puopose than the ahety or theia nulèsp
en the centaay the Tueaus wee pghing tobahg
loy to heia mewy acquined taith o Talam.Thks
selieve hot eveAything w olloued in wo9i and

would go all out to achi eve the victoy.To them,tha end

net the meanm.
wao impoatant
AL Saivaptaya is e the oprion hat the
mut be held
poliical ditunity of the Rajputo
theisa deleot Each pance
pimooily espenible hon
and he taght fon h
had to ight vingle-handed ,
t w e e n d not hon eountu
ho
wm kingdom, ao
cal unity paved the way
and pedple ) laek o poub
decline the Hindu pouseS un India.D
hon the c
that the tall ok Hndu Trndia
Buddha Paakaph Ays
meRE aN o iide
intanee
beohe the Toks was
than ot muAdea. foa natanee, Jaychand celebratien
o deeot ok Prttviaai ot Tahain shows that
the
the ivalby and hodred vetween the euding
ang was muadeNcs even when they acedLa
deadly common enemy.
ith a ACM Hali bullah oao set
N thatthe Raiput had a
HQll o Nothing" atitude and atosked amoat
ioue eavngula encounte.They could
the eveyTrq
heia not hik
abten n te oa temponasiy bet back and get neady o *
nes another encountea }It the deleot wao ineritoble, all the
anothe

men would die

ighting
and the women and childaen would
ut eommt jauhai They did not ealie that ut uas
necesAY To aetreat i a wos and to atack again oemeimes
hen
theenemy was at a dinadvantaa oih e r
high Tet anothes dekect wap that the
he untatve ok
Rapu nevertos
atkacking They auooyo united on the ene
toOpreaz efore thea stsongholdo deterive peicy da not
mecema9üly the e t when ombined uith an cHtenve poicy
wwual vehedesred enlt.
Lobing back oven the expeditieno d the Shakao and
the Huaun he poa the Indiaro believed that theusko
would not paoceed eond Tunjab.Thio laek ot oreight
and a tendency to hope ton the est paoved to be uinou
un the end.
y M. Panikkar and AL Saivaatava ane cthe view that
utal degenesatien wno tonemoat c a e othe taure
othe Rapulto. Th2 paead o Tantoic Cuts devadosis th
hemples ond qouirg coruation un panghan and vihanap
ane eganded ao thë degenration ot netigion) liteaatuae
vo alao degeneaating in thio e9iod which hod a pearicious
ehet en the noiey and i moren .rough UNGhoshal hao
cAuticined thio point sk view.
Da Tarachand hotdo the view that there was no
eective PH YStem, no atengto to ecthes untelligenee

epoato en the enemy he lack o untelligence of the Rajputa

ARo abysmal.
The qeneral attitude o the Hinduo touardo oth os
hd thein oen Jives war anethes rngritirt caue hon
theia de{eat Al-Beni cemment that the hdians had the
pectlia bait of NegaHding eveAyene ele oo below theis
aOUP E thein albe senoe oupeicUty PAOved to ude
 Uun
"Ehaicu oA KOAnMO,
loviima aremher 2018
thei un
Thw thie
deteot othe Raputs by the
de seenn in OT
lorg-team Tuaks have to
Polibcal rtóuenune the petopertive. Thédecadent
the detunt miitoy
atagnant Tndian. coiey,
neligie detedts and econcmic
0 uith caganinatien,
ito unhenent
inheent socio
oocio-
Ceated a qu Letween the mbalance which
Poliicol leadeship co9ied mames and the soio-
PAe-uaim ndian society and he eedo decay
Jn othe
twan plagued, RaPut Jeadeship,
pasduclcovy by the nelt-destuctive
Choocteounti -the
omillte9y machineay neqlet oa eund Poitical-eum
Nack oeeling o o colective elt-deenae,the
and
overalu national cornciouonem
uuuttal wartaSe .)No wondes,
it atood a vea
Poon chan.ce ot uAvival
n the
the Tulistn nvado0, nthe cthensAAUAle againat
hand the Tun 1
weae cemmaNded by a ahnewd
diplomat,
poiti cian and kaa ighted tateman likeqneat
hMgu .They exploited the enemies Muhammad
weakynen to achiee
the Aoal.Ghusù steady buildeA o hio empine.
was a

Deppite aequent betbacks he advanced ateodily

towando hio empiae-Jbuilding goal