Second Battle of Tarain

1192

Muhammad of Ghor, smarting from his defeat the previous year, returned to the field near Delhi with twelve thousand mounted archers and routed Prithviraj Chauhan's Rajput confederacy. The battle ended independent Hindu power in northern India for six centuries and opened the gates of the Gangetic plain. The speed of the Ghurid conquest astonished contemporaries and left the Rajput kingdoms fragmented and demoralized.