UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2018 · Q5(a) · 10 marks
“The battles of Tarain and Chandawar laid the foundations of Turkish rule in India“. Elaborate.
- Chapter
- The Thirteenth Century
- Topic
- Ghurid Invasions and the Turkish Conquest
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