Bakhtiyar Khilji
Mohammad Bakhtiyar Khilji was a born plunderer of Gore place of Garmasir province. Due to his plundering nature, he joined the party of the chief of the robbers, Mohammad Ghori and started brokering women to get maximum share in the looting and to pacify the lust of Mohammad Ghori for the big position. He started the business of robbing, killing Hindus, Buddhists, Jains as well as selling their women, sisters and daughters as sex slaves. Seeing the diabolical talent of Shaitan Bakhtiyar Khilji, Muhammad Ghori's Awadh warlord Malik Hisamuddin put him on a special campaign of killing and plundering Hindus. Now he would attack villages and cities at night, kill Hindus, Buddhists, rape their women and sell them as captives.
According to Minhaj, the writer of Tabakate Nasiri, “Being courageous and daring, he often attacked the districts of Munger and Bihar, collecting a lot of loot. Thus he had an abundance of horses, weapons and soldiers. The fame of his valor and robbery activities spread far and wide and Khiljis from far and wide gathered around him. When the news of his exploits reached Qutubuddin Aibak, he sent him a dress and gave him great respect."
Attack and loot on Nalanda and Vikramshila University
Further in the same book, Minhaj has written about the attack on Nalanda University in 1193 AD, "With only two hundred horsemen, Bihar went up to the gate of the fort (Nalanda University) and broke down on the uninformed enemies (ie students and teachers). He had two elder wise brothers - one was named Nizamuddin and the other was Shamsuddin. When the battle started, these two brothers showed great bravery. Bakhtiyar Khilji got a lot of loot. Most of the residents of the palace were hair-shaven Brahmins. All of them were abolished. There Muhammad saw a pile of books. The men were searched for information about him, but all were killed there. After this victory, Bakhtiyar Khilji, laden with loot, came to Qutubuddin who respected and respected him a lot. (Page 309, Granth-2, Tabqate Nasiri, authored by Minhaj-ul-Siraj)
It is said that Bakhtiyar Khilji set fire to a pile of books which kept burning for the next three months. Nalanda University had about 10000 students and about 2000 teachers. In this way, the devil moved towards Bengal, destroying the ancient world famous Hindu and Buddhist education centers like Sarnath, Kushinara, Nalanda etc. On the way, he attacked Vikramshila University established by Pala king Dharmapala in the eighth century and completely destroyed it too.
Attack and loot on Gaur region of Bengal
At that time the king of North Bengal or Gaur region was Rai Lakshman Sen. Minhaj has written about him in his book that "he never did injustice to anyone, small or big. Whoever went to him to ask for charity gave one lakh each.”
Although the Sen dynasty was famous for their valor, but due to the pro-Buddhist Pal dynasty of Bihar-Bengal, later Sen dynasty Hindus also became victims of non-violence virus. King Lakshmansen was among them. Nadia was their capital. It is astonishing that the whole of Bihar was burning with Islamic terror, loot, murder and rape and the Sen and Pal dynasty rulers of Bengal were sitting inactive. Even more unfortunate was that Bakhtiyar Khilji reached near the river in 1204 AD with his army and reached the palace in the guise of a merchant along with his soldiers but neither Lakshmansen's soldiers nor Lakshmansen's spies knew about this. started.
Minhaj writes in Tabakate Nasiri, “Bakhtiar entered the river with deceit, he kept on moving forward without molesting anyone. People thought these were all business people. Similarly, he walked till the palace gate of Rai Lakhminia. Then pulling out his sword, he attacked. At this time the king was sitting at the meal. Suddenly the sounds of loud screams and screams started coming from the palace gates and the city. Before he knew the matter, Bakhtiyar Khilji entered the palace and ambushed many people with his sword. Rai fled barefoot from the backyard of the palace. All his treasure, all his wives, maidservants and maidservants came into his possession. He also captured many elephants in his possession. The loot of loot was so much that it could not be counted….Bakhtiar Khilji destroyed the river and made Lakhnauti the center of his rule.
All the temples and schools of North Bengal were converted into mosque-mausoleums
By taking possession of the nearby palaces, he got them declared as his palace and got it printed on coins. Mosques, tombs and madrasas were erected all around….He sent a large part of his loot to Qutubuddin Aibak”
Historian Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes, “Minhaj categorically accepts that all medieval tombs, madrasas and mosques in Bengal are Hindu temples, palaces and schools. During the long period of Muslim rule, people have forgotten to consider these hijackers and destroyers as the builders of these buildings.”
Assamese heroes rescued Bakhtiyar Khilji for sixes
Bakhtiyar Khilji now wanted to destroy Tibet by attacking it, for this he selected the local man of Cooch Behar, Ali Mich, whom he had recently converted to Islam, to guide him in the mountainous areas and marched with the army. Ali Mich took him to Vardhankot (ancient name Bangmati), a town on the banks of the Brahmaputra river. Here an ancient pool with 20 pillars was built to cross the river. Khilji, leaving some of his soldiers there to protect the bridge, crossed the pool with the army and entered Assam and proceeded towards Tibet. One night in 1243 AD, he made his camp between Bangaon and Devkot. One day suddenly the Hindu army of the Assamese ruler attacked him.
Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes that for the first time a Hindu king had shown his wisdom and went ahead and attacked the intruder invaders. The Hindus had attacked in the early afternoon and by noon had killed and injured a large number of Muslims. Minhaj writes, “Hindus had bamboo spears which were tied and stitched together. Everyone had long bows and arrows."
Despite this, the brave Hindus of Assam got rid of the sixes of Bakhtiyar Khilji's demonic army. Frightened, terrified and defeated Bakhtiyar was informed by his spies that an army of 35,000 brave Hindus with bows and arrows was standing in the nearby Hindu city of Kurmpattan and the Tibetan army was also advancing from Tibet. Then he thought it right to return after consulting.
Formidable strategy of Assamese heroes
Here, even after defeating the Muslim robbers, the Hindu army took full care of the fact that the Muslim invaders running back should not get a grain and their animals should not get even a straw of grass. Forced on this, they started eating their own horses.
Bakhtiyar came running to the pool with the army and was stunned to see that his army, who had been left to protect the bridge, was wiped out by the Hindus, completely demolishing the pool and closing all the routes for his escape. While wandering in search of the way, he saw a strong skyscraper temple in which there were huge statues of gold and silver. Bakhtiyar captured it and took refuge in it and started arranging the fleet and rope to cross the river.
Historian Purushottam Nagesh Oak writes, “It is no longer necessary to mention that the Muslims defiled the temple and kept the idols of gold and silver and made the temple a mosque because this is a story that has been repeated so many times in the history of thousand years. It is known that people get bored while studying.”
devil's end
Here even the Assamese heroes did not breathe a sigh of relief. The Assamese king ordered all the Hindus of his area to gather and people started gathering around that Hindu temple. They started sticking bamboo spears diagonally all around so that a kind of wall would be formed all around. Fearing to be trapped in the cage, he fled into the jungles along with the army, but the brave Assamese army followed him there too. In panic and panic, he jumped into the fast current of the Brahmaputra. The following Hindus took possession of the river bank.
Enemies reached the middle of the stream where the water was very deep and almost everyone drowned. Some horses, whose number would be around 100, and Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji could with great difficulty cross the river with the help of the corpse of his fellow Muslims and come over it. He fell ill after reaching Devkot. He didn't come out of fear. In 1205 AD, while Shaitan Bakhtiyar Khilji was lying in solitude, hiding his face in shame, his death secretly reached him in the form of Ali Mardan and abusing him with sharp knives till the life left his body.
Salute to the brave heroes of Assam who took Islamic devil Bakhtiyar Khilji to the door of death!