The Early Life of Bakhtiyar Khilji

[@rahuls8764]

First video of this era. Great content as usual.

[@JayVardhanSingh]

thank you

[@nitkills7070]

Jay bhai as always a fantastic job, but could we get more of Guptas please. I am just eagerly waiting for you to talk about Guptas more, especially about the emperors and their wars, Like Samudragupta's Digvijay yatra, Chandragupta 2's campaign in Gujarat and Skandgupta's heroic stance against the swata hunas. Do consider my recommendation and as always a fantastic work.

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Thank you Bhai. Yes you will see videos on these topics in the upcoming months. But from time to time I will also make videos on medieval period or sometimes even modern.

[@bestcocbaseswithlink5069]

Sir, I'm your fan from Nepal and have been following your vids since last 2 months. Could you please make a video on history of Nepal and ancient relations between Nepal and Bharat?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Bhai, please call me Jay, I am no Sir. About your suggestion, yes I will make videos on the history of Nepal and its connection with India

[@rishabhbhatia4821]

Where else can I find more of your content? Are you on any other platforms other than KZbin?

[@indicaedits8692]

Twitter

[@JayVardhanSingh]

I post weekly space on topics related to history on Twitter. Here is the link of my Twitter Account. twitter.com/Jayvtweets

[@anirudh177]

Can we have more vids on the Kingdoms in North India between the collapse of Palas, Pratiharas and the first invasions from men like Ghazni and Ghori? I mean vids on Kalachuris, Chahamanas, Paramaras, Solankis, Gahadavelas, Chandelas, Tomaras, Paramaras, Senas etc I find this era interesting, The north was very disunited, but the tales of the wars and conflicts between the rulers are so fascinating to read about.

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Yes all of these topics will be covered soon.

[@anirudh177]

@@JayVardhanSingh Looking forward to seeing those videos 😁😁

[@anirudh177]

Also could you do some videos on the history of various Rajput Kingdoms like Amber, Marwar, Mewar etc, like from the earliest days to the more well-known times. I have just finished reading the "History of Jaipur (1503 - 1938)" by Jadunath Sarkar, and I am currently reading "A History of Mewar, from earliest times to 1751" by Ram Nath Somnani and I found these books absolutely amazing. I never knew the Guhila lineage went back as far as the 500s and 600s. And the fact that the one of the Gurjara-Pratihara rulers, Devapala (948 - 854) was defeated and killed by Rawal Allata of Mewar is really cool (although the Pratiharas were already weak by that time and well in decline by that time and were crumbling).

[@muzammilibrahim5011]

Are you gonna do a video on the tripartite struggle?

[@raginisingh2251]

Excellent

[@rajatrana3329]

Arjunayan (Prithudak, Thaneswar) to Tanwars/Tomars (Indraprasth ) that cover 2nd century to 6th century Arjunayan Republic neighboring to Yaudheyas to Monarch Indraprasth from 6th to till Rai Pithora (Prithviraj Chauhan).

[@sabyasachio]

informative

[@tathagatquandaliusganesh1082]

Out of context question ,what are your views on aryan invasion theory.Really need your Insight

[@JayVardhanSingh]

I believe there was a migration into India.

[@akk7791]

Nice video

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Thanks

[@anirudh177]

Could you make videos more in detail about Indian and foreign muslim conflicts? from the very first Umayyad campaigns to Tarain? Other than repelling the Umayyad invasions, we know that Indians had victories before 1192:- Gahadavalas: -In the 1090s/Early 1110s, Masud III of Ghazni leads an expedition into India, and captured the Gahadavala king, who is later recovered by a constant war from Govindacandra, who “forces the Hammira to lay aside his emminity”. A treaty was concluded and Govindachandra retakes his kingdom. -Govindachandra also seems to have repulsed a Ghaznavid invasion as a sovereign, as his courtier states that he killed a Hammira. His wife, Kumaradevi, praises him from “protecting Varanasi against the wicked Tururska". This is probably a reference to him being vigilant in general against the Turks, who may have fought or the frontier of the kingdom. Vijayachandra also seems to have repulsed a Ghaznavid invasion pre- 1164, when Khusrau Malik invaded India with pressure on the western front from the newly formed Ghurids, but was repulsed. Gahdavala records also praise him for this feat. -Jayachandra Gahadavala fought the Turks at Chandawar, and muslim sources make it clear that he was carrying the day and the Turks were loosing morale, but a straw arrow that hit Jayachandra decided the ultimate fate of UP's history for the next 500 years; The death of Jayachandra caused a sudden confusion in the Gahadavala army, which the Ghurids used and turned the tables of the battle. Harishchandra seems to have been able to repulse the Ghurids at Kannauj, as Muslim sources say that the Ghurids went towards Kannauj, but don't mention what happened. the Chahamanas: -Bahram Shah invades and captures Nagaur, and starts raiding into Chahamana territory, but gets repulsed by Anoraja, as attested by the Prithviraja Vijaya and several other inscriptions. - Ajayraja fights and routs the Ghaznavids out of Nagaur. - Prithviraj’s frontier generals repulse several skirmishes of the Ghurids and crush the 1191 invasion. Solankis: - Rout the army of Muiz al din/ Muhammad of Ghor near Mt. Abu at the Battle of Kasahrada.

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Bhai, I will cover most of these topics in the coming months.

[@debarghyabhattacharyya5069]

Please make video on khilji conquest of sena empire of bengal

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Have already made a video on that topic. Do check this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4LVcnSqiddke9k&ab_channel=JayVardhanSingh

[@vamandesai9531]

Thanks for the informative video. Can you please throw some light on whether there was any connection between Khiljis and the Turk Shahi rulers of Kabul?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

No, the Turk Shahi were most likely descendants of the Kushanas or the Hepthalites. The term "turk" in their name is because Arab sources, from where we get most of our information, used to apply this name to everyone they encountered in the eastern Iranian region (which included Afghanistan).

[@vamandesai9531]

@@JayVardhanSingh thanks. Helpful to know. Would be great to meet and interact with you!

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Sure, we can discuss this on twitter.

[@adityaanand1621]

Sir please make a video on rajput period .

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Yes I will make them and you can call me Jay.

[@adityaanand1621]

Jay Vardhan Singh jay sir please make a detailed video , origins of rajputs different clans like gohil , chauhans , partihars etc .

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Bhai, please call me Jay, I am no Sir. About your suggestion. Will try to make videos on these dynasty in future.

[@Shivathedestroyer04]

Can you make a video about chalukya-chola wars and how this wars effected them

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Thanks for your suggestion, yes I'll cover them in my future videos.

[@biswajitguin7798]

Bakhitayar khiji was turk or afghan.

[@JayVardhanSingh]

He was a turk but the turks considered him an afghan

[@SalmanKhan-wu7pk]

Don't make us Turks I am from khilji tribe of pathans afghans...we know better about our history we are pashtunes and speaking pashto since thousands of years we didn't migrate from turk we wer living in the ghor mountance...

[@theathiestcrusader]

All good, Jay. However, I would like to correct you on one fact. Before 1206, there was no Delhi Sultanate. There was only the Ghurid Empire. Bakhtiyar Khilji was working for the Ghurids and not for the Delhi Sultanate, which was established by a Turkic slave named Qutb-Ud-Din Aibak after the death of Muhammad of Ghor. Even so, the Delhi Sultanate was initially based in Lahore, not Delhi. That only happened later under Iltutmish. (r. 1211 - 1236)

[@Shivathedestroyer04]

Why do historians call Hinduism practiced in ancient times as Brahmanism?? Does that mean that lower caste people didn't worship hindu gods?if that is true why do we have 1 billion hindus in India right now??

[@JayVardhanSingh]

No, I think the term Brahmanical tradition is used to refer to the bodies of text which were preserved and most of the time authored by the Brahmins. The religious views and philosophies in the views are essential component of Hinduism and these were practised by other communities as well.

[@Shivathedestroyer04]

@@JayVardhanSingh Am really interested on how does the caste system in the ancient times work?? Was it worse than today or better??

[@JayVardhanSingh]

I think it is difficult to know for sure because all we have are religious texts. There's no account of an ordinary person. Whatever you'll read about caste in ancient India will ultimately depend upon what king of source you're using and how you're interpreting them.

[@anirudh177]

@@Shivathedestroyer04 The Caste system itself developed in the Vedic Period. The original Varna system was probably created as a way of organizing society during state formation and the proliferation of agriculture in India. You assign people functions and rules depending on which of the four broad roles they're engaged in. This helps maintain social order and allow smooth functioning and though this varna was based on birth, people weren't necessarily forced to work in the occupations of their varna (plenty of kshatriya and brahmins engaged in land-owning business, and basically anyone was allowed to work for the military etc). Of course, since the brahmins and kshatriyas controlled the government they tilted the laws in their favor so that they could maintain their power base (and gave some concessions to the business interests i.e. vaishyas as well to retain their support and keep the money-dealers on their side), which explains the unequal social, political and economic situation of the various groups in the hierarchy. In its earliest days, it may have been possible for individuals to go up and down the ladder as shown by the Mauryans and the Nandas, but it soon became more restrictive and rigid. As with any other society of the ancient era, it was extremely difficult for individuals to leave the professions and classes they were born into, and the exceptions tended to be rare, but various communities. groups and Jatis were able to change their position among the varnas and move up and down the ladder based on economic, social and political influences that affected them.

[@anirudh177]

@Alexios I Komnenos True, the Kakatiya monarchs even openly displayed their Shudra ancestry. And the work of a soldier was taken upon by practically ever varna.

[@jaibudhadev66]

👍👍👍

[@vyasak7]

What was the reason for his targetting the university-towns of Nalanda and Vikramashila? You did mention his raids in Bihar were to acquire wealth, but was that the reason for his destruction of Nalanda?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

The destruction of Nalanda had two reasons. Firstly since it was a university town, these raiders thought that they could acquire wealth here. Second, the religious angle was also there. Because if there was no religious angle, there was no need to kill the monks and Brahmin that were present in these university towns.

[@vyasak7]

@@JayVardhanSingh This religious angle is an interesting one. Although I'm not aware of the details, I've read that Huns and Gaudas also destroyed Nalanda before(perhaps partially) and they were rebuilt because they had Buddhist patrons who were willing to donate for the cause. Since the Huns were nomadic invaders, we can skip over them. But Gaudas being Hindus and destroying a primarily Buddhist centre for learning is used to justify how in practice the Indic religious were not very different from the Abrahamic ones. What do you think about this?

[@Lmao69]

@@vyasak7 gaudas?

[@JayVardhanSingh]

The source of this information is Xuanzang. It is he who tells us that Shashanka cut off the Bodhi tree and removed the statue of Buddha. I have planned to cover this topic in a video. But I think that there were definitely some exception where different sects were targeted but as it is said the exception proves the rule.

[@vyasak7]

@@JayVardhanSingh wow a video about this would be amazing! But looking at the amount of requests you have regarding other video topics, I'll be willing to wait for whatever time it would take for you to make that video!

[@bakhtiyarehsan7054]

Hello

[@Hindibookstores]

Khaal-zaai like Yusuf-zaai

[@SalmanKhan-wu7pk]

Not Turks they are pashtunes

[@patakhanzana4379]

Sultan mehmood ghaznavi is also from khilji tribe they called him ghaznavi because he was the ruler or ghazni province sultan mehmood ghaznavi was from khilji tribe

[@ajithsidhu7183]

Sikh empire please

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Yes, it will be covered in much detail in the future.

[@kulvirsingh1275]

नालंदा के 3 झूठ watch the video. Bakhtiyar Khilji is fake story.

[@bestcocbaseswithlink5069]

wahi video se aa raha hu mai bhi bhai

[@5493dev]

Kehdi video AA..

[@muhammadmaaz2142]

The last eyewitness to the ancient Nalanda University is believed to be Dharmaswaman, a Tibetan student there who studied under Acharya Rahul Sribhadra. 1234 to 1236 AD in Dharma Swaman Nalanda Mahavahara If Bakhtiar Khalji's forces demolished Nalanda University in 1193 and set fire to the library there, how was the education and training there until forty years later? Bakhtiar in 1206 ۔ was Bakhtiar had also died in 1206 ۔ Therefore, the research resources used to attribute the downfall of Nalanda University to the Muslim rulers and invaders are definitely unsubstantiated and false. The fact is that the internal chaos of Buddhism and the conspiracies of Brahminism had made the educational system of Nalanda University so unreliable, hollow and far from the society and the original religious education that its downfall . If the books were burning for six months after the grand library of Nalanda University was set on fire and no one from the nearby Ganu or area came to put it out, then this behest is also behind him.

[@agniswar3]

Then why 'Tabakate Nashiri' talked about it which is a near contemporary account of Khilji's life?

[@jyotirmayamohanty5723]

Khalaj

[@SalmanKhan-wu7pk]

Khiljis are Afghan pashtunes I belong aswell

[@faqarwowgreatmeeting6162]

Khilji are pathan not Turk.

[@KASHIFKHAN-bj1yd]

I belong to the same tribe ie the GHILZAIS

[@SalmanKhan-wu7pk]

Khilji..in pashto ghilzi or ghilzai are pathans..pashtunes..afghans..ghilzai or ghilji or in Hindu khilji mean the children of mountains wer living in ghor mountains.we are not Turks ask turk people if you are not believing why this fake history that we are Turks....?I am from khilji tribe I am paahtune

[@5493dev]

GA@@** Nd marwalo MC...bsd ke mullo

[@AyushGuptaAyushgupta]

You are nothing just a son of terrorist

[@ikramulhaq7431]

Khalji ghalzai all is pashtuns .90% talibans soldiers and comanders is khalji today 😅