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Amroha
The 1305 CE battle at Amroha in Jyotiba Phule Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, where Alauddin Khilji's generals Malik Nayak and Ghazi Malik (the future Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq) decisively broke a Chagatai Mongol army of 50,000 under Ali Beg and Tartaq — ending Mongol raiding of the Indian plains for a generation. The Delhi Sultanate is one of very few states to have stopped Mongol expansion outright at the gates of its heartland (the others being Mamluk Egypt at Ain Jalut 1260 and the Jin dynasty in China). Alauddin's reorganisation of the frontier cavalry, the market-price controls funding standing armies, and the ratbuti and khuta tax reforms produced the military economy that beat the Mongols at Amroha, Jalandhar and Kili.
- Date
- 1305 CE
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.900, 78.470
Connections (2)
- CampaignTughlaqabad
Alauddin Khalji's generals broke a Chagatai army at Amroha in 1305, one of several defeats Delhi inflicted on the Mongols between 1297 and 1308 — the Sultanate is one of very few states anywhere to have stopped Mongol expansion outright. Tughlaqabad, built a decade later with sloping walls of enormous thickness, belongs to the same defensive logic: a capital designed on the assumption that the steppe would come back.
- PatronageAlai Darwaza
The Alai Darwaza was completed in 1311, six years after the Mongol armies were broken at Amroha and in the middle of the Deccan campaigns that were funding Delhi. Alauddin's building — the gateway, the unfinished Alai Minar, the Hauz-i-Alai and Siri — is what a sultanate does with the money and the security that come from winning on two fronts at once.
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Sources
List of wars in the Indian subcontinent; standard reference accounts
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