ABSTRACT
In Lower Bengal, the Buddhist Pals had given place to the Brahmanized Sens of Nadiya before the Muhammadans reached that Frovince for the first time in 1199. Mountstuart Elphinstone's History of India is still the standard popular work on the Muhammadan period. The first collision between Hinduism and Islam on the frontier was the act of the Hindus. In 977, Jaipal, the Hindu chief of Lahore, annoyed by Afghan raids, led his troops up the passes against the Muhammadan kingdom of Ghazni, in Afghanistan. The Khilji dynasty extended the Muhammadan power into Southern India. Extent of The Muhammadan Sultan of India was no longer merely an ham mad an king of Delhi. The Muhammadan governors in the Deccan also revolted, while the troops in Gujarat rose in mutiny. The Muhammadan Bahmani troops, on the other hand, were often led by converted Hindus.
