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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]]<br />
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | 18 October 1025 (departure) – spring 1026 (return)<br />
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Multan → the Thar → Anhilavada → Somnath; return by Kutch and Sindh<br />
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! style="text-align:left; padding:4px; width:34%; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Belligerents<br />
| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Ghaznavids — Chaulukya Gujarat; the temple’s defenders; the Jats on the retreat<br />
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Mahmud of Ghazni — Bhima I (withdrew to Kanthkot)<br />
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Temple sacked (January 1026) — and a retreat that cost the army dearly<br />
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The '''Somnath campaign (1025–26)''' is the most famous operation of the age — told here as a military campaign: the desert march, the defence, and the price of the return. The temple's history, memory and rebuilding belong to [[Somnath Temple — The Shrine Eternal]]. ''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.''<br />
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== Background — why Somnath ==<br />
''(To be written — the founder will guide this page.)''<br />
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== The march — Multan to the sea ==<br />
''(To be written — the founder will guide this page.)''<br />
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== The defence of the temple ==<br />
''(To be written — the founder will guide this page.)''<br />
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== The sack ==<br />
''(To be written — the founder will guide this page.)''<br />
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== The retreat — Param Dev, the desert, the Jats ==<br />
''(To be written — the founder will guide this page.)''<br />
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== Verdict ==<br />
''(To be written — the founder will guide this page.)''<br />
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== What it meant for India ==<br />
''(To be written — the founder will guide this page.)''<br />
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== Sources — labelled ==<br />
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[[Category:The Resistance Chronicle]]<br />
[[Category:Military History]]<br />
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