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Answer the following question briefly:
Mention three most important invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni.
Solution
The important invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni were:
- Mahmud of Ghazni raided India for the first time in 1000 AD. After that, he is said to have conquered India 17 times, till his death. He was resisted by King Jaipal and then by his son Anandpal but both of them were defeated.
- Between 1009 AD and 1026 AD, the places that Mahmud of Ghazni invaded were Kabul, Delhi, Kanauj, Mathura, Kangra, Thaneshwar, Kashmir, Gwalior, Malwa, Bundelkhand, Tripuri, Bengal, and Punjab.
- In 1027 AD, he invaded the Somnath temple in Gujarat, on the coast of Saurashtra or Kathiawar. This was supposed to be his biggest invasion as he had looted all treasures and precious items of the fortified temple.
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