Battle of Waihind (1008)
| Part of | The Resistance Chronicle — Age I · the Ghazni ledger |
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| Date | 31 December 1008 (per Nazim; some reckonings 1009) |
| Place | Plain of Chach, near Waihind (Hund), east of the Indus |
| Belligerents | Ghaznavids — Hindu Shahis with confederate contingents (Firishta: Ujjain, Gwalior, Kalinjar, Kannauj, Delhi, Ajmer) and the Khokhars |
| Commanders | Mahmud of Ghazni — Anandapala |
| Outcome | Ghaznavid victory — the near-run field |
| Remembered for | The confederacy of the kings; the women’s ornaments; the Khokhar charge; the elephant that fled |
The Battle of Waihind (1008) was the great confederate battle of the Frontier Age — the closest any Indian field army came to destroying Mahmud, decided in the end not by generalship but by the panic of Anandapala's elephant. This page is a placeholder of The Resistance Chronicle (Age I); its sections will be filled under the founder's direction, to the wing's rules: verdict, meaning for India, sources labelled.
Background — the confederacy assembles
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The forces and the funding
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The forty days
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The Khokhar charge
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The elephant and the rout
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Verdict
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What it meant for India
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Sources — labelled
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