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Muhammad was the brother of the Sultan of Ghor , a region of what is now central Afghanistan . Ghor lay on the western boundary of the Ghaznevid empire. Before 1160, the Ghaznevid empire covered an area running from central Afghanistan to the Punjab , with capitals at Ghazni and Lahore . In 1160, the Ghorids conquered Ghazni from the Ghaznevids, and in 1173 Muhammad was made governor of Ghazni. In 1186 - 7 he conquered Lahore, ending the Ghaznevid empire and bringing the last of Ghaznevid territory under his control. Muhammad attacked the north-western regions of the Indian Subcontinent many times. The first time he was routed in present-day Gujarat by Rajput s.A battle was fought at Kayadara near Mount Abu , where Ghauri'sadvance was defeated. Gujarat later fell to Muhammad Ghauri's armies in 1197 . In the First Battle Of Taraori in 1191 Prithvi Raj Chauhan captured Muhammad Ghouri. Prithviraj met Ghauri in a personal combat and injured Ghauri.Later both armies attacked each other and Ghauri's army was defetaed.Ghauri took his army back to North India and starrted preparing for another battle.It is said that he vowed not to sleep on a bed or take a bath until he had defetaed Prithviraj.Next year,he again reached Taroro and challenged Prithviraj,killing him in combat and thus conquering Prithviraj's kingdom. Within a few years Muhammad Ghauri controlled northern Rajasthan and the northern part of the Ganges-Yamuna Doab . Muhammad Ghauri returned east to Ghazni to deal with the threat to his western frontiers from the Turk s and Mongol s, but his armies, mostly under Turkish generals, continued to advance through northern India, raiding as far east as Bengal . Muhammad returned to Lahore after 1200 to deal with a revolt of the Gakhar tribe in the Punjab . He suppressed the revolt, but was killed during a Gakhar raid on his camp on the Jhelum River in 1206 . LEGACY Upon his death, Qutb-ud-din Aybak , Muhammad Ghauri's most capable general, took control of Muhammad's Indian conquests and declared himself the first Sultan Of Delhi . Muhammad's former territory in Afghanistan was conquered by the Mongols. The tomb of Pir Sultan Muhammad Ghori is located at Dera Ghazi Khan , currently a part of Pakistan . Pakistan considers Sultan Muhammad Ghori as a hero, and has named its Intermediate-range Ballistic Missile the '' Ghauri Missile '' in his honor. |
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