Question
Though an attack on this temple was exalted by scholars like al-Biruni to demonstrate its perpetrator’s devotion to Islam, little mention of it was made by local Hindus. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this temple on the coast of Gujarat that was sacked by Mahmud of Ghazni. In 1842, the British claimed a random set of doors from Ghazni as being from this temple when “returning” them.
ANSWER: Somnath Temple [or Somanatha temple/mandir; or Deo Patan]
[10m] The British may have returned the doors to win support from Hindus following a disastrous retreat from this city, where William Elphinstone’s column was massacred by Wazir Akbar Khan.
ANSWER: Kabul
[10e] Though Mahmud mostly just raided India, slaves under fellow Turkic conqueror Muhammad of Ghor formed a sultanate based in this city. The British moved the capital of the Raj from Calcutta to a planned district within this city in 1911.
ANSWER: Delhi [accept New Delhi]
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