Mahmud of Ghazni's First Success, AD 1000 (litho)

Mahmud of Ghazni's First Success, AD 1000. Mahmud of Ghazni in Afghanistan (997-1030) vowed a jihad or holy war against the idolaters of India, and between 1000 and 1026 he raided Northern India fifteen times, meeting in his first expedition the forces of the frontier Rajput ruler, Jaipal Shahiya of Kabul and Lahore. In the mountains of the Khaibar Pass about Jalalabad, the scene of the disaster to the British troops in 1842, Jaipal's army was surprised by a snowstorm, which enabled Mahmud to gain his first success. Illustration for Hutchinson's History of the Nations (Hutchinson, c.1920). Note: Image has been digitally enhanced to facilitate repro.