Bakhtiyar Khalji's Tibet campaign

Bakhtiyar Khalji's Tibet campaign

Bakhtiyar Khalji led his army through harsh terrain into the cultivated valley of mainland Kamrup and Tibet, where he met fierce resistance and a guerrilla uprising
Date1206
Location
Result Tibetan victory
Belligerents
Khaljis of Bengal
Deshi Muslims
Tibetan tribes
Commanders and leaders
Tibetan tribal leaders
Strength
10,000 (approx.)[1] Unknown
Casualties and losses
Several thousand; cavalry reduced to a few hundred Unknown but less than Bakhtiyar.

Bakhtiyar Khalji, the general of Qutubuddin Aibak, launched a campaign to invade Tibet in the 13th century.[2][3]

He was motivated by a desire to control the lucrative trade between Tibet and India. Tibet was a source of the most prized possession of any army, horses, and Khalji was keen to secure this route and control the trade by conquering Tibet. Musalman army commenced plundering the country around the Tibet Region. The people of that fort and town and the parts adjacent advanced to repel the Muslim army, and they came to a battled From daybreak to the time of evening prayer a fierce encounter was carried on, and a great number of the Musalman army were killed and wounded.[4]

  1. ^ Debajyoti Burman (1947). Indo-Muslim Relations: A Study in Historical Background. Jugabani Sahitya Chakra. p. 67.
  2. ^ Khan, Muhammad Mojlum (21 October 2013). The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal. Kube Publishing Ltd. p. 19. ISBN 9781847740625. Archived from the original on 22 March 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ahmed2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ H G Raverty (1873). Tabakat I Nasiri. p. 572.