Battle of Beas River
Appearance
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Battle of Beas River 1285 | |||||||
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Part of Mongol invasion of Central Asia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Chagatai Khanate | Mamluk Sultanate | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ghiyas ud din Balban Muhammad Khan † |
The Battle of Beas River took place between the Chagatai Khanate and the Mamluk Sultanate on 9 March 1285. Ghiyas ud din Balban arranged a military defense line across the Beas River as part of his "blood and iron" fortification chain strategy at Multan and Lahore as a countermeasure against the Chagatai Khanate invasion. Balban managed to repulse the invasion. However, his son Muhammad Khan was slain in battle.[2][3][4][5]
Primary sources
[edit]- Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi Ziauddin Barani
Reference List
[edit]- ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 37, 147. ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Satish Chandra (2004). Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526) - Part One. Har-Anand Publications. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-81-241-1064-5.
- ^ Kausar Ali (1978). A new history of Indo-Pakistan: from Dravidians to Sultanates. Aziz Publishers.
- ^ John McLeod (2015). The History of India. ABC-CLIO. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-1-61069-766-8.
- ^ Jaswant Lal Mehta (1979). Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-81-207-0617-0.