i) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq followed a policy of reconciliation with the nobles.
ii) But in the fifth year of his reign (1325) Ghiyas-ud- din died.
iii) Three days later Jauna ascended the throne and took the title Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

Ala-ud-din's campaigns into Devagiri (1296, 1307, 1314), Gujarat (1299-1300), Ranthambhor (1301), Chittor (1303) and Malwa (1305) were meant to proclaim his political and military power as well as to collect loot from the defeated kingdoms.

i) Bhakthiyar Khalji is charged with destroying the glorious Buddhist University of Nalanda in Bihar, who is said to have mistaken it for a military camp
ii) Detailed descriptions of Nalanda is found in the travel accounts of Chinese pilgrim Hieun Tsang.
iii) The manuscripts and texts in the hundreds of thousands in the Nalanda library on subjects such as grammar, logic, literature, astronomy and medicine were lost in the Turkish depredations.

i) When all Rajput chiefs had stood by Prithviraja in his battles against Muhammad Ghori,
ii) Jaya Chandra stood apart, as there was enmity between Prithviraj and Jai Chandra, on account of Prithviraj's abduction of Jaya Chandra's daughter Samyukta.
iii) So Ghori easily defeated Jaya Chandra and returned to Ghazni with an enormous booty.

i) Ghori attacked the fortress of Tabarhinda (Bhatinda), a strategic point for the Chauhans of Ajmer.
ii) The ruler of Ajmer Prithviraj Chauhan marched to Tabarhinda and faced the invader in the First Battle of Tara in (1191)
iii) Prithviraj scored a brilliant victory in this battle but failed to consolidate his position believing this battle to be a frontier fight, and did not expect the Ghurids to make regular attacks.