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For nearly 300 years, Islamic conquest in India was confined to this trading community in Sind, but in the tenth century, tribesmen from Turkistan, driven west by Chinese expansion, set up a state at Ghazni and began raids across the border to plunder Hindu temples.
Mahmud smashed the infidels’ idols and destroyed their temples as he went, but was nonetheless cultured enough to use the booty to build a library, a museum, and a splendid mosque when he got back to Ghazni.
Sweeping through the Punjab and Gujarat across to the western end of the Ganga valley, Mahmud of Ghazni (997–1030) used these raids more to finance his empire in Persia and Turkistan than to set up a permanent foothold in India.
At the end of the 12th century, the Turks arrived: Sultan Mohammed of Ghur and his Mameluke (slave) General Qutb-ud-din Aybak seized Ghazni in 1173 and invaded India.
The sultan returned to Ghazni and, leaving Qutb-ud-din in charge, moved east to Bengal, destroying centers of Buddhism such as the University of Nalanda.