Battle of Beas River

Battle of Beas River is located in South Asia
South Asia
1250 CE
DELHI
SULTANATE
(MAMLUKS)
AHOM
LOHA
RAS
QARLUGHIDS
MARYUL
GUGE
KUMAON
SOOMRAS
MAKRAN
SULTANATE
MONGOL
EMPIRE
VAGHELAS
CHUDASAMAS
PARAMARAS
CHANDELAS
GUHILAS
BUNDELAS
KHANGARS
JAISALMER
MARWAR
AMBER
AMARKOT
KARNATAS
NAGVANSIS
KAKATIYAS
CHODAS
EASTERN
GANGAS
YADAVAS
PANDYAS
CHOLAS
HOYSALAS
KADAMBAS
CHERAS
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South Asian polities, circa 1250 CE, and approximate location of the Battle of Beas River.[1]
Date9 March 1285
Location
Beas River
Result Decisive Delhi Mamluk Sultanate victory
Belligerents Chagatai Khanate Mamluk SultanateCommanders and leaders Ghiyas ud din Balban
Muhammad Khan †
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Mongol invasions of India
  • Indus
  • Lahore
  • Multan
  • Beas river
  • Punjab (1292)
  • Punjab (1297–98)
  • Sindh (1298–99)
  • Kili (1299)
  • Delhi (1303)
  • Amroha (1305)
  • Ravi (1306)

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

Reference List

  1. ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 37, 147. ISBN 0226742210.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Kausar Ali (1978). A new history of Indo-Pakistan: from Dravidians to Sultanates. Aziz Publishers.
  4. ^ John McLeod (2015). The History of India. ABC-CLIO. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-1-61069-766-8.
  5. ^ Jaswant Lal Mehta (1979). Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-81-207-0617-0.


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