Salar Masud was killed and his army destroyed.
01What the sources say
The fullest account is the Mirat-i-Masudi, written in the 1600s by Abd-ur-Rahman Chishti from older material. It says Salar Masud came through Multan, Delhi and Satrikh, sent his captains against Bahraich and the country around, and was killed there in 1033 fighting a league of Hindu rajas, with his whole force. The rajas’ leader appears as Sohar Dev or Suhal Dev. No contemporary Ghaznavid chronicle mentions the expedition, so historians debate its scale; that a warrior named Masud fell at Bahraich was established well before: Ibn Battuta visited his tomb there with Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq in the 1340s.
02Suheldev remembered
In the villages of Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda, Suheldev is remembered as the raja who broke the invaders, and the Pasi and Rajbhar communities both honour him as their own. A memorial to him stands on the Chittaura lake at Bahraich, where tradition places the battle. Masud’s tomb, the dargah of Ghazi Miyan, also stands in the town and draws its own fair each year.
After Bahraich no Turkic army entered the middle Ganga plain for over 150 years, until Ghori’s generals after Tarain.
