Gazetteer Lahore 1893

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1Lahore District. ]

2CHAP, Il, -HISTORY. 27

3Even now the Muhammadan of the Punjab is perhaps less

4bigoted, and the Hindu less grossly superstitions than else-

5where ; and it is remarkable that two of the boldest reformers

6India has produced, Golakhnéth and Nénak, were natives of

7the Punjab.

8During the reigns of the first eight princes of the Ghazni-

9Chapter Ir.

10History.

11Early Muham-

12vide dynasty, Lahore was governed by viceroys ; bat in the madan period.

13reign of Masadd II (A. D. 1098—1114) the seat of Government

14was temporarily removed to [mhore, as, the Seljuks having

15deprived the house of Ghazni of most of its territory in Irén

16and Turan, the royal family were compelled to take refuge in

17their Indian possessions. Lahore was again made the seat of

18empire by Khusran, the twelfth Ghaznivide Emperor, and

19would appear to have remained so until the fallof the dynasty,

20in A. D. 1186, and the establishment of the house of Ghor.

21The Ghaznivides, especially the later ones, seem to have been

22atolerant race,and to have adopted a conciliatory policy

23towards their Hindu subjects ; we find them employing troops

24of Hinda cavalry, and some of them even adopted on their

25coinage the titles and written character of the conquered race.

26Their popularity may further be inferred from the continual

27disturbances which arose at Lahore after their expulsion.

28Daring the Ghorian and Slave dynasties, Lahore was the Labore during the

29focns of conspiracies against the Government; indeed, it appears Ghorian and Blave

30throughout the. subsequent history of Muhammadan rule to

31have been. the rendezvous of the Tartar, as opposed to the

32Afghan party. In A. D. 1241, Lahore was taken and plundered

33by the hordes of Changez Khin ; and in A, D. 1286, Prince

34Muhammad, the accomplished son of Sultén Ghyds-ud-din

35Balban, perished in an encounter with the Mughals on the

36banks of the Ravi, the poet Amir Khusrau yen taken

37prisoner by his side.

38dynasties.

39During the Khilji and Tughlak dynasties, Lahore is not Tho Khilji and

40prominent in the political history of the day, It was once Taghlak dynasties.

41plundered by the Gakkhars, and mention is made of Mughal

42colonists taking up their abode in the vicinity of the city, the

43place of their location being still known by the name of

44Mughalpura.

45The year 1397 is memorable as the date of the invasion of fovasion of Timér.

46Timar, the “ firebrand of the universe.” Lahore was taken

47by a detachment of his forces, and from the fact that Timdr

48did not plunder it in person, it may be inferred that the city

49was not then particularly rich. On his departure, Lahore was

50left in possession of Saiyad Khizr Khan, an Afghin noble, native

51of India, whom he appointed viceroy.

52From this period, the city was alternately in the hands of The Lodi dynasty.

53the Gakkhars and the ruling dynasty, until, in A. D, 1436, it was

54seized by Bahlol Khan Lodi, one of the Afghan chiefs, who

55rose to power on the overthrow of the Tughlak dynasty, and

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