1st battle of Tarain and followed by the 2nd battle of Tarain. There is 1 year duration between both battles it is continuity of the same battle that happens again 1 year later.
Some background: At this point in History India was largely an unknown territory to the known world except few things written about them but nobody knew anything about them in greater detail until Mohamed of Ghor and his guys ventured into India. It initially started out as an adventure campaign but turned into bitter war and revenge. India had an incredible amount of wealth
1st Battle of Tarain ''91''
2nd Battle of Tarain ''92''
This youtube channel is superb, its doing better job than most history teachers.
Its good see the truth, of what actually happened. These Hindutwa fakers have spread all kinds fake fantasy stories through various media in India.
The following poem claims a Blinded Prithviraj killed Muhamad Ghori with a arrow. Now, I think a lot of their claims of victory and bravery are fake.
PRITHVIRAJ KI SHURVEERTA,
GHAR GHAR BANI DESH KI AAN,
DHOOP ME DAMKE RAO NIGODA,
JO VEERO KA VEER MAHAN..
JAI JAI PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN
JAI JAI PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN..
AB APNA DHYAN MERI ORE KARO CHAUHAN..
"CHAR HATH CHAUBEES GAJ,
ANGUL ASHTH PRAMAN,
TAA UPAR SULTAN HAI,
MAT CHUKO CHAUHAN.."
They claim Prithviraj only lost because of his forgiving nature, martial bliss etc... But the truth is Rajput army was way outdated in tactics, weapons and logistics.
Ghori's army only lost the first time due to their complacency and indiscipline of some of his commanders.
Strategic leader of an army only decides to invade, when he is very confident of its military superiority over the defender, and sees a good chance of victory. And second invasion attempt is only made when you are sure, that you only lost because of bad luck and complacency.
Privthviraj never dared to recapture the Bathinda fort, even with double the army of Ghori. Shows how much low confidence he had in his and army's capabilities. I bet he and his army were shit scared and only fought because Ghori only gave him two options
1. fight and defend
2. run and lose face and his kingdom
And, I bet someone at his position was too arrogant to see the truth and run.
Even the claim of Rajput army, fighting to the death is doubtful, I bet his slow moving army just couldn't outrun the mounted horse archers in Ghori's army.