"“…Mahmood Shah Shurky, having recruited his army, took the field again for the purpose of reducing some refractory zemindars in the district of Chunar, which place he sacked, and from thence proceeded into the province of Orissa, which he also reduced; and having destroyed the temples and collected large sums of money, returned to Joonpoor.”"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Sultãn Mahmûd Shãh bin Ibrãhîm Sharqî of Jaunpur (AD 1440-1457)Orissa Tarikh-i-Firistha , in Goel S. R. & Shourie Arun (1991). Hindu temples what happened to them. vol. 2
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/History_of_Odisha
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
History of Odisha
9 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by History of Odisha →
Related Quotes
"From the time that India was conquered, none of the princes had raised his standard over Orissa. The rulers of that c…"
"“Kalapahar, by successive and numerous fightings, vanquished the Rajah's forces, and brought to his subjection the en…"
"'The victorious standards set out from Jaunpur for the destruction of idols, slaughter of the enemies of Islam and hu…"
"Order issued on all faujdars of thanas, civil officers (mutasaddis), agents of jagirdars, kroris, and amlas from Kata…"
"Allah, who is the only true God and has no other emanation, endowed the king of Islam with the strength to destroy th…"
"It (Sîrat-Fîrûz Shãhî) is a text either written or dictated by Sultãn Fîrûz Shãh Tughlaq himself. According to this b…"
"After some time he proceeded to Orissa with the intention of jihãd. He attacked places in the neighbourhood of that p…"
"From the Pike Struggle, the Ganjam Movement, and the Larja Kolha movement to the Sambalpur war, the land of Odisha al…"
"During the winter of 1998/99, Pakistanis had stealthily occupied several Himalayan mountain peaks on the Indian side.…"
"Now compare this with the attitude of the BBC during the Kargil war. Most of us foreign correspondents know by now th…"