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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | [[The Resistance Chronicle|The Resistance Chronicle — Age I]] · [[Mahmud of Ghazni — The Raider and the Resistance|the Ghazni ledger]]
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | 27 November 1001
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Plain near Peshawar, Gandhara
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Ghaznavids — Hindu Shahis
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Mahmud of Ghazni — [[Jayapala]]
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Ghaznavid victory; Jayapala captured and ransomed
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Jayapala abdicates and dies on his own pyre
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'''The Battle of Peshawar (27 November 1001)''' opened Mahmud's Indian wars: the first pitched battle between the Sultan and the [[Hindu Shahis]], ending in the defeat and capture of the aged king '''[[Jayapala]]''' — and in the pyre by which he refused to outlive it. ''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 Shahi frontier after Sabuktigin ==
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== The forces ==
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== The battle ==
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== The captivity and the pyre ==
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== Verdict ==
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== What it meant for India ==
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== Sources — labelled ==
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[[Category:The Resistance Chronicle]]
[[Category:Military History]]
[[Category:Age of Regional Empires]]