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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Autumn–winter 1015; 1021
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Fortress of Lohkot (Loharin), Pir Panjal, Kashmir
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Ghaznavids — Lohara Kashmir
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Mahmud of Ghazni — Samgramaraja’s garrison
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | '''Both sieges failed''' — the only outright defeats of Mahmud's career
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The two '''sieges of Lohkot (1015 and 1021)''' are the entries the textbooks skip: the mountain fortress of the [[Lohara dynasty|Lohara kings of Kashmir]] stopped Mahmud outright — twice — the first retreat nearly destroying his army in the snows. ''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 — Kashmir and the Shahis: Tunga on the Tausi (1014) ==
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== The fortress ==
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== The first siege (1015) — the retreat through the snows ==
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== The second siege (1021) ==
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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]]