India’s Hindu population, regarded by the Muslim minority, after extensive plundering, as docile, do not rebel against the Ghorids, despite the overbearing rule of Sultan Muhammad Ghori, possibly because Muslim émigrés bring rumors of Mongol fighting in Persia.
Muhammad is assassinated, however, in Lahore in 1206.
(The historians Hasan Nizami and Ferishta record the killing of Ghori at the hands of the Gakhars, a Punjabi tribe.
However, Ferishta is known to have often confused them with the Khokhars, a Rajput clan, and other historians have alluded the killing to a band of Hindu Khokhars of the Salt Range, as many campaigns had been undertaken against the Khokhars by Ghori in the Punjab.)
Ghori reportedly had trained thousands of Turkic slaves in the art of warfare and administration.
Most of his slaves had been given an excellent education: during his reign many hardworking and intelligent slaves have risen to positions of excellence.
The childless sultan’s kingdom is divided upon Ghori’s death into many parts by his slaves: …
