1. Do you think the enmity between Prithviraj and Jayachandra had an important part to play in Ghori being able to establish supremacy in north India? Give evidence from the story to support your view. 2. Both Prithviraj and Ghori were each other's prisoners at some point of time. However, the way they reacted to the situation was different. Fill in this table to bring out the differences in their characters. Situation Reaction Trait of character revealed mercitul Ghori wol capolesed Despite warming from his kind forgiving and brought before minister, Prithivaj Prithivaj where ne decided to forgive Ghori chivalrous and allowed him to chos ordered him to ungrateful decenfoly lower his eyes and cruel, mercilers het han mille sai solaced
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Do you think the enmity between Prithviraj and Jayachandra had an important part to play in Ghori being able to establish supremacy in north India? Give evidence from the story to support your view. 2. Both Prithviraj and Ghori were each other's prisoners at some point of time. However, the way they reacted to the situation was different. Fill in this table to bring out the differences in their characters. Situation Reaction Trait of character revealed mercitul Ghori wol capolesed Despite warming from his kind forgiving and brought before minister, Prithivaj Prithivaj where ne decided to forgive Ghori chivalrous and allowed him to chos ordered him to ungrateful decenfoly lower his eyes and cruel, mercilers het han mille sai solaced
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More than 1400 years ago Kshatriyas belonging to the Chauhan[1] clan established a small kingdom around the town of Sambhar[2]. In the 9th Century, as tributaries of the Imperial Pratihars of Kannauj, the Chauhans fought the Palas of Bengal (in the east) and the Arabs of Sindh (in the west). As their power grew, younger sons of each Chauhan Raja, known as Rajaputras[3], established their own strongholds and principalities around the parent kingdom.
The Chauhans did not suffer any loss during the 11th Century invasions of Mahmud Ghaznavi but they had several fights with his successors who established their rule in the neighboring region of the Punjab. In the early 12th Century Ajayraj Chauhan built a fort near the Holy Town of Pushkar. The site commanded a strategic gap in the Aravalli hills—to the west was Sambhar and the trade routes leading to the southern ports, while to the east was the fertile basin of the River Ganga and its tributaries. This hill-fort was named Ajay-meru[4] (Ajay's hill), which with the passage of time was pronounced Ajmer, and which became the site for a new capital city for the Chauhans.
The descendants of Ajayraj captured the then small town of Delhi[5] from the Tomars and southern Punjab from the Ghaznavi Turks. At the close of the 12th Century Prithviraj III ruled from Ajmer with ambitions in the south (other kingdoms mostly of his own clansmen in southern Rajasthan and Gujarat), in the north (Punjab and the hill-chiefs of Himachal Pradesh[6]), and the south-east (northern Madhya Pradesh).
Further in the west the Turkish Sultan of Ghor captured Ghazni and deputed his brother, Shihab-ud-din Muhammad, to rule there. The elder brother then turned his energies against other Turk tribes of Iran and Central Asia while the younger led expeditions into India. Passing through Baluchistan Muhammad captured Multan and Uch and then sent a proposal to Prithviraj asking for a joint campaign against the ruler of Gujarat. This proposal was rejected since the Chauhans had enough resources to tackle the Chaulukyas of Gujarat on their own