Jalal al-Din Khalji takes Jhain

01Jhain

Amir Khusrau, who was with the army, describes the campaign in his Miftah al-Futuh. The Chahamana forces were beaten in a skirmish near Jhain, and the town, rich in temples, was occupied. Khusrau writes of the destruction of its temples and the breaking of their images. Barani adds that the sultan, admiring the carved temples, still ordered them pulled down. The army then moved on to besiege Ranthambore.

02Ten such forts

Ranthambore held. Barani reports that after looking at the fort the sultan said he would not sacrifice a single hair of a Muslim for ten such forts, and he lifted the siege. The remark angered his younger officers, his nephew Alauddin among them, who saw it as weakness. Ten years later Alauddin, by then sultan, returned to Ranthambore and took it after a long siege in which Hammir Dev died.

Dynasty · c. 7th century–1192 CE (Ranthambore branch to 1301)Chahamanas (Chauhans) of Shakambhari and AjmerThe Chahamanas grew from chiefs around Sambhar lake into the kings of Ajmer and Delhi. Prithviraj III defeated Muhammad of Ghor at Tarain in 1191 and fell to him there in 1192.Read →