Siege of Thangir (Bayana)

01The siege

Minhaj and Hasan Nizami both record that in 1195–96 Muizz al-Din marched against Thangir, the stronghold of the Jadon Rajputs who ruled Bayana and claimed descent from the Yadavas of Mathura. The raja, Kumarapala, held out for a time and then surrendered the fort on terms. The sultan gave the district to his slave-commander Baha al-Din Tughril, who built a new town near Bayana and from there pressed the siege of Gwalior.

02Gwalior and after

Gwalior, held by the Parihars, resisted Tughril for over a year before it too surrendered to Aibak’s officers. The Jadons were not destroyed; their descendants founded the kingdom of Karauli, which survived as a princely state until 1947. Three centuries later Bayana was again a battlefield, when Rana Sanga’s men cut up Babur’s advance guard there in 1527. The ruins of Tahangarh still crown a hill south of Bayana.

Person · 1482–1528 CE; reigned 1508–1528Rana SangaSangram Singh beat the Lodi Sultan of Delhi and the Sultan of Malwa, led the largest Rajput confederacy of his age, and fought Babur at Khanwa in March 1527, carrying the scars of some eighty wounds.Read →