The Sack of Somnath in 1025-1026 was a military campaign orchestrated by Mahmud of Ghazni, a ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire, directed against the Chaulukya...
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Somnath Temple is a Hindu temple, located in Prabhas Patan, Veraval in Gujarat, India. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites the Tirtha Kshetra...
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Ghaznavid campaigns in India (category History of South Asia)
series of raids into India between 1000 and 1027. His primary goal was to plunder the rich temples of northern India, most notably the famous Somnath Temple...
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most invaders. The temple and citadel are sacked, and most of its defenders massacred. 1025: Somnath: Mahmud sacks the temple and is reported to have personally...
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Somnath Chatterjee (25 July 1929 – 13 August 2018) was an Indian politician who was associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for most of...
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This is a list of wars involving the Islamic Republic of Iran and its predecessor states. It is an unfinished historical overview. History of Iran Swedish...
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Bhima I (category Kings of Gujarat)
ruled parts of present-day Gujarat, India. The early years of his reign saw an invasion from the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud, who sacked the Somnath temple. Bhima...
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Bhoja (category Kings of Malwa)
Dev after sacking the Somnath Hindu temple. Modern historians identify Param Dev as Bhoja: the name may be a corruption of Paramara-Deva or of Bhoja's title...
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Chaulukya dynasty (redirect from Chalukyas of Gujarat)
unopposed and sacked the Somnath temple. After Mahmud’s departure, Bhima restored the Chaulukya rule. He crushed revolts by the Paramara chiefs of Arbuda, who...
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Jeffrey Sachs (redirect from Jeff sack)
formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable development and economic development. Sachs is director of the Center for...
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The early history of the Chudasama dynasty in Saurashtra (now part of Gujarat, India) is largely lost. Bardic legends vary significantly in names, sequence...
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Khalji's army under the leadership of Ulugh Khan defeated Karandev II of the Vaghela dynasty, and sacked the Somnath temple. In 1665, the temple, was once...
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[About communist leader Somnath Adhikari Pyasi]. Nepalipatra. Retrieved 2020-06-05. "Government picks new governors after sacking Deuba-period appointees"...
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Iconoclasm (redirect from Destruction of Hindu temples)
sacked and plundered by the Delhi Sultanate. Perhaps the most notorious episode of iconoclasm in India was Mahmud of Ghazni's attack on the Somnath Temple...
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Dwarka (redirect from History of Dwarka)
temple in Kashmir. Nageshvara Jyotirlinga Somnath Temple Brockman 2011, p. 94. Desai 2007, p. 285. "Development of Ramayana and Krishna Circuits". pib.gov...
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Kanhadadeva (category Chahamana kings of Jalor)
Jinaprabha's Vividha-tirtha-kalpa. It is possible that the story of Kanhadadeva's rescue of the Somnath idol is a fabrication by the later writers. Alternatively...
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Thanesar (category History of Haryana)
lying in the hippodrome in Ghazna, together with the Lord of Somnath, which is a representation of the Mahadeva, called Linga." Firishta records that In the...
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Clifford Chukwuma (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from April 2018)
Sporting Clube De Goa sack Gaonkar". New Delhi: News18. 7 February 2009. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Sengupta, Somnath (13 July 2011)....
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story begins in 1025 CE when Mahmud of Ghazni sacks Somnath Temple and breaks the idol of Lord Shiva. The prince of Shravasti, Malladev, dies trying to...
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Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple (category Hindu temples sacked in the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent)
endless Stambha pillar, symbolizing the infinite nature of Shiva. The twelve jyotirlingas are: Somnath at Veraval in Gujarat, Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in...
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Delhi Sultanate (redirect from Sultanate of Delhi)
Almas Beg was brother of Ala-al Din Khalji; his destruction campaign overlapped the two dynasties. Somnath temple went through cycles of destruction by Sultans...
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Kabul Expedition (1842) (redirect from Battle of Kabul, First Anglo-Afghan War)
recover a set of ornate sandalwood gates, known as the Somnath Gates, which had been looted from India by the Afghan rulers and hung at the tomb of Sultan Mahmud...
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History of India. Also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and list of years in India. Chronology of Tamil history...
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Ramanathaswamy Temple (category Hindu temples sacked in the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent)
pillar, symbolising the infinite nature of Shiva (without beginning or end). The twelve jyotirlinga are Somnath at Veraval in Gujarat, Mallikarjuna at...
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Omkareshwar Temple (category Hindu temples sacked in the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent)
representing the form of Shiva and near it is a white stone representing Shiva's consort, Parvati. The twelve jyotirlingas are Somnath at Veraval in Gujarat...
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Khalji's army under the leadership of Ulugh Khan defeated Karandev II of the Vaghela dynasty, and sacked the (rebuilt) Somnath temple. By 1665, the rebuilt...
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Kashi Vishwanath Temple (category Hindu temples sacked in the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent)
Stambha pillar, symbolising the infinite nature of Shiva. The twelve jyothirlinga are located at Somnath in Gujarat, Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andhra...
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2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020. Sengupta, Somnath (7 February 2018). "How Herbert Chapman changed the face of management and domestic success at Huddersfield...
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Gujarat under the Delhi Sultanate (category History of Gujarat)
interference of Muslim rulers except for the expedition of Mahmud Ghazni against the Somnath Temple in 1024; the defeat of Muhammad of Ghor by Chaulukya...
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the original on 5 May 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2022. Sengupta, Somnath (2 May 2010). "History Of Mohun Bagan (Part 1): The Success That Changed Indian Football"...
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