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Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī

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capital at Deoghar

In Deoghar
The Muslim invader Bakhtīyār Khaljī made Deoghar his capital in 1201 after the conquest of Bihar. It was constituted a municipality in 1869.
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history of India

In India: The Turkish conquest
…the meantime, an obscure adventurer, Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī of the Ghūrid army, conquered Nadia, the capital of the Sena kings of Bengal (1202). Within two years Bakhtiyār embarked on a campaign to conquer Tibet in order to plunder the treasure of its Buddhist monasteries, and in 1206 he…
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