Overview
- The book devotes six pages to Mahmud of Ghazni’s 17 campaigns, detailing destruction, mass killings and the sale of prisoners, including children, in Central Asian slave markets.
- The section cites primary chroniclers such as Al-Utbi and Al-Biruni to describe temple demolitions, looting in Mathura and Kannauj, and the Somnath temple’s desecration.
- The chapter broadens the narrative to Muhammad Ghuri, Qutb-ud-din Aibak and Bakhtiyar Khilji, including accounts of the destruction of Nalanda and Vikramashila.
- A prefatory ‘word of caution’ urges students to study difficult periods without assigning blame to people living today.
- The release comes within NCERT’s integrated textbook rollout that replaces three Class 7 social science books with two, and the director described the content as self-explanatory.