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List of early Hindu-Muslim military conflicts in the Indian

subcontinent
The table below lists the early Hindu-Muslim military conflicts in the Indian subcontinent.[1]

Muslim Hindu

( Color legend for Victor)

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Year Aggressor Location Commander Details

Tanah, near
636 Muslim Caliph Umar Major Naval Raid[1][2]
Mumbai

Arabs invaded Debal at the mouth of the

c. 643 Muslim Debal
Indus river[3]

650 Muslim Zaranj Caliph Uthman City of Zabul protected,Muslims defeated[1]

660s Muslim Bust Ibn Samarah Bust occupied; Kabul garrisoned[1]

670 Hindu Kabul unknown Hindus recapture Kabul[1]

Ratbil, Yazid ibn

680 Hindu Kabul Hindu raiding parties harass Muslims[1]
Ziyad

Abu Dulhah,
692 Muslim Bust Muslim expedition Killed and Routed[1]
Ratbil

Ibn Abi-Makrah,
694 Muslim Kabul Major Muslim siege fails to retake Kabul[1]
Ratbil

Qutaya ibn
708 Muslim Sijistan Major punitive raid against Ratbil[1]
Muslim, Ratbil

710 Muslim Sri Lanka Al-Hajjaj Raid on island[1]

Muhammad ibn Islamic conquest of urban Sindh Repulsed by

713 Muslim Multan
Qasim Rajputs[1]

Hullishah, al- Hindu army retakes major city from

715 Hindu Alor
Muhallab Muslims.[1]

Hullishah, al- Muslims Fall due to the Hindu counter-

715 Hindu Mehran
Muhallab offensive[1]

Hullishah, al-
718 Hindu Brahmanabadh Hindu attacks resume[1]
Muhallab

al-Muhallab, Hullishah Muslim, Killed likely due to military

721 Muslim Brahmanabadh
Hullishah reversals.[1]

725 Muslim Avanti Nagabhata I Defeat of large expedition against Avanti.[1]

724- Uzain, Mirmad,

Muslim Junayd of Sindh Umayyad defeated by Hindu Rajputs.[1]
740 Dahnaj, others

Mauray of
740 Muslim Chittor Hindus repulse an Arab siege[1]
Chittor

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743 Muslim al-Bailaman, al- Junayd Muslims defeated.[1]

Jurz

Junayd of
750 Muslim Vallabhi Sindh, Pratihara capital Repulsed Muslim raid.[1][4][5]
Nagabhata I

ar-Rukhraj,
754- Kabul, Caliph Al-
Muslim Heavy raids and sieges but few Muslims lost[1]
775 Kandahar, Mansur
Kashmir

778 Muslims Barabad Caliph Al-Mahdi Muslim amphibious assault annihilated.[1]

Late
Muslim Sijistan Caliph Al-Mahdi Raja of Sijistan killed vassal of Caliphate.[1]
770s

Fort Tharra,
780- Vigorous Muslim offensive defeated by Hindu
Muslim Bagar, Haji Abu Turab
787 Rajputs.[1]
Bhaqmbur

786- Caliph ar-

Muslim Kabul Major Muslim siege effort fails.[1]
791 Rashid

800- Nagabhata II, Several Muslim outposts fall to Pratihara

Hindu Sindh border
810 Caliph Al-Amin incursions[1]

Caliph Al-
810- Kabul falls to Muslims, is then retaken by
Muslim Kabul Ma'mun,
820 Hindus.[1]
Nagabhata II

820- al-Fadl ibn

Muslim Fort Sindan Sindh Rajputs defeat Jihadis.[1]
830 Mahan

839 Hindu Fort Sindan Mihira Bhoja Hindus expel Muslim garrison.[1]

Muslim principality becomes vassal of

845 Hindu Sindh Mihira Bhoja
Pratiharas.[1]

845-
Hindu Pratihara-Sindh Mihira Bhoja Uneasy truce between Sindh and Rajputana.[1]
860

Rajputana- Kalachuri raids into Sindh to finance war with

860 Hindu Kokkalla I
Sindh Pratihara kingdom[1]

867 Muslim Herat Yakub ibn Layth Saffarid DEFEATED BY HINDUS[1]

870 Muslim Kabul Yakub ibn Layth, Saffarid DEFEATED BY HINDUS[1]

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Lalliya Shahi

880- Amr ibn Layth,

Muslim Sijistan Frequent raids by REPULSED.[1]
900 Kamaluka Shahi

903- Disintegration of Saffarids allows major Hindu

Hindu Kabul region Shahi dynasty
905 military achievements.[1]

905- Mahipala
Hindu Multan region Series of major Hindu sieges of Multan.[1]
915 Pratihara

940- Pratihara, Amir Evidences of war and reprisals prior to the

Hindu Multan region
950 of Multan Qarmatian take-over.[1]

c.
Alptigin of Ghazni loses to Punjab several
948- Muslim Alptigin Punjab
times.[6]
963

Alptigin, Anuk
963 Muslim Fort Ghazni Muslims LOSE fort TAKEN from Hindus.[1]
Lawik

965-
Muslim Lamghan Sabuktigin Heavy raiding[1]
973

973 Hindu Ghazna Sabuktigin VICTORY of Hindu expedition.[1]

973- Sabuktigin, Long series of engagements, eventual Muslim

Muslim Lamghan
991 Jayapala defeated at Lamghan[1]

Mahmud,
1001 Muslim Peshawar VICTORY of major Hindu confederation.[1]
Jayapala

Mahmud, Bijay
1004 Muslim Bhera Muslims defeated by Rajput city[1]
Ray

1005– Mahmud, Fateh Siege successful, Daud agrees to pay tribute

Muslim Multan
1006 Daud to Anangpal[1]

1005– Mahmud,
Muslim Punjab Muslim raids in lost cause.[1]
1008 Anandapala

1009 Muslim Nagarkot Mahmud City Repulses Muslim attack[1]

Mahmud,
1009 Muslim Ohind TOMAR VICTORY[1]
Anandapala

Mahmud,
1013 Muslim Nandanah TOMAR VICTORY[1]
Trilochanpala

1014 Hindu Tosi river Mahmud, Muslims halted; TOMAR VICTORY[1]

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Trilochanpala

1015 Muslim Lohkot (Lahore) Mahmud Unsuccessful Muslim siege[1]

Kannauj and
1018 Muslim Mahmud TOMAR VICTORY[1]
Baran

1021 Muslim Lohkot (Lahore) Mahmud Second MUSLIM siege also fails[1]

Mahmud,
1022 Muslim Fort Gwalior TOMAR VICTORY[1]
Nanda

Mahmud,
1022 Muslim Fort Kalanjara Chandela fort stalls Muslim advance.[1]
Nanda

1025 Muslim Somnath Mahmud TOMAR VICTORY.[1]

1027 Muslim Indus Valley Mahmud, Jats TOMAR victory[1]

Saraswa, near
1033 Muslim Masud RAJPUTS successful[1]
Saharanpur

Ahmed
1033 Muslim Varanasi Nialtigin, Major raid[1][7]
Gangeyadeva

Hansi (near
1037 Muslim Masud Tomar victory[1]
Delhi)

Mahmud,
1040 Muslim Tomar Tomar Victory.[1]
Tomar dynasty

Thanesar, Mahipal of Grand HINDU counter offensive captures

1044 Hindu
Hansi, Kangra Delhi ground.[1]

Thanesar,
1049 Muslim Bu'Ali Hasan Mahipal conquers whole Afghanistan[1]
Hansi, Kangra

Nushtigin
1052 Muslim Fort Kangra Ghazni, Muslims defeated by Mahipal.[1]
Mahipala

Rupal, Ajudhan,
1060– Buria, Sirhind,
Muslim Sultan Ibrahim Muslim defeats.[1]
1075 Dhangan, Fort
Darah

1079– Muslims defeated and routed by Tomar

Muslim TOMAT IBRAHIM.
1081 Rajputs.[1]
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1084– Muslim Beyond IBRAHIM Powerful but valueless expeditionary probe[1]

1094 Ganges.

Massive raids and sieges after Hindu

Hajib
1099– conquest bring many marginal victories but
Muslim Kannauj Tughatigin,
1115 Kannauj remains in the hands of the Hindu
Madanachandra
garrison.[1]

1120– Muhammed MUSLIM penetration raid DEFEATED by

Muslim Nagaur
1124 Bahlim Rajputs.[1]

1160– Dhillika, Asika,

Hindu Vigraharaja Major Hindu successes in counter-offensive[1]
1175 Aryavarta

1170 Hindu Kannauj Jayachandra Hindus retake Kannauj[1]

Ghuri, Muslim
1170 Muslim Multan Ghurid Defeat[1]
ruler of Multan

1178 Muslim Nahrwalah Ghuri Muslim Siege fails[1]

Ghuri, Mularaja
1178 Muslim Kayadara Major defeat for Ghurids[1]
II

1179 Muslim Nadol Ghuri Muslim Defeat.[1]

1182 Muslim Ghuri Unknown Muslims halted.

Ghuri, Prithviraj
1191 Muslim Tarain Chauhan victory[1]
Chauhan

Ghuri, Prithviraj
1192 Muslim Tarain Ghurid victory[1]
Chauhan

All were captured in quick succession after

Sirsuti, Samana,
the defeat of Prithviraj Chauhan, with ruthless
1192 Muslim Kuhram and Ghuri
slaughter and a general destruction of
Hansi
temples and building of mosques.[8]

1193 Muslim Chandawar Ghuri, Jaichand Ghurid victory.[1]

Qutb al-Din, Rai End of independent Hindu dynasties in

1202 Muslim Fort Kalinjar
Parmar Kannauj[1]

1203 Muslim Mahoba Qutb al-Din Capital of Kalpi province falls.[1]

Brahmaputra Muhammad ibn Major Muslim expedition to Tibet a total

1205 Muslim
area Bakhtyar disaster.[1]

1205 Hindu Fort Kalinjar Chandelas Fort recaptured.[1]

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Between
Ghurid,
1205 Hindu Lahore and Khokar rebellion put down by Ghurids[1]
Khokhars
Multan

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3. Majumdar. 3. p. 169

4. (Ed) Pusalkar, Dr A. D. History and Culture of Indian People, Classical age. p. 150. Dr R. C.
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