Prithviraj Chauhan's Defeat in the Battle of Tarain (1190-92)- A Graphic Account of his Battle with Ghori
Ghurs who inhabited the remote highlands of Central Afghanistan had always been at loggerheads with the Ghaznavids. Due to the relatively inaccessible nature of their mountainous homeland, they had managed to retain independence from the empire based in Ghazni for a long time; many of them had remained non-Muslim as well. In the year 1010, Sultan Mahmud, who would later raid and desecrate the holy Somnath temple, marched on to Ghur and forced its ruler to accept his suzerainty. Some decades later, his descendant Behram Shah had the Ghur king brought over to Ghazni and publicly executed. The next Ghur king, who was the former king's brother, tried to avenge his death. However, he was captured through treachery, paraded on the streets of Ghazni on the back of an old cow and put to death. The succeeding Ghur king, Alauddin Hussain avenged these murders by occupying Ghazni for seven days and putting its inhabitants to the sword. Women, children, elderly, none were spared. By the time