Capturing able bodied strong Hindus wasn’t easy for the invaders who called them demon like!
Hindu Warriors were surrounded using subterfuge, rooes were hurled at them,bound with hide, cords,chains & shackles
they were kept under strict surveillance till their spirits broke down! https://twitter.com/meenakshisharan/status/1322602955460153346
Captives were physically tortured
The sight of gruesome killings unnerved & shattered them
Raja Jaipal,his children,grand children,nephews,chiefs were bound with chains, arms tied behind backs,some seized by their cheek,with blows on their necks,were carried away as captives!
2/n
The Hindu Shahi Raja Jaipal of Kabul along with other captives was displayed & paraded in a slave auction market in Khurasan in front of his chieftains & relatives. He was finally sold at a maqiman-i-bazar for 80 dinars.
3/n https://twitter.com/meenakshisharan/status/1184409869526241280
Mahmud of Ghazni’s father Sabuktagin was a slave of Alaptagin- a Turkish slave of king of Khurasan!
Deformed,ugly Qutubuddin Aibak was Nishapur Qazi & slave trader Fakhruddin’s slave
Iltutmish & Bakahtiyar Khilji were Aibak’s slaves, Balban was Iltutmish’s slave!
Weird?
4/n
“Temples were converted to Masjids,azaan ascended the heavens, idolatry was annihilated.. loud 5 times azaan carried invitation to join or refuse at their own peril”.-Hasan Nizami,1195.

“Under Aibak & Muizzuddin,even poorest Muslims owned numerous slaves”- Fakhr-i-Mudabbir.
5/n
Raja Bhim was attacked in 1195, Aibak captured 20,000 Hindus
in 1202 at Kalinjar,he enslaved 50,000!
Hindus in Kashi were nearly wiped out, women enslaved!
“50 thousand Kaniz va Ghulam were rewarded with the honour of islaam”. - Farishtah.
The barbarians bought us jalebi?
6/n
I come from the hindu Khokhar lineage who gave a tough time to Ghori & Ghazni besides others.
Aibak & Muizuddin attacked & plundered Koh-i-Jud/ Salt Ranges, the Khokhar stronghold, some escaped into the dense jungles, who couldn’t were massacred, around 4000 taken captives!
7/ n https://twitter.com/meenakshisharan/status/930752441485746176
“Khokhars were constantly attacked by Iltutmish & Balban
They weren’t annihilated & gave trouble in after years.”- Amir Khusrau,Minhaj.
1231,Iltutmish took large number of Hindu slaves, attacked Ujjain, destroyed Mahakal Jyotirling in 1234, women were carried away as always!
8/ n
Due to Mongol upheavel in Khurasan, 40 Muslim refugee rulers with entourage & slaves from Turkistan, Rum/ Turkey, Sham/ Syria, Khurasan, Persia, Azarbaijan, flocked Bharatvarsh!
Delhi became Dar-ul-izlam
Ulama & the Mashaikh weren’t satisfied since total 🇮🇳 wan’t converted yet!
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