Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna was the first Muslim sovereign to give practical shape to the idea of a Muslim empire in India. Hailing from the small kingdom of Ghazna, Abu'l Qasim Mahmud, was a indefatigable warrior and in the course of his long reign of 32 years (998-1030) became the master of an empire whose boundaries extended from the Punjab in the east to the Tigris valley in the west and from Bukhara in the north to Makran in the south. Notwithstanding the ...
