The Sultanate’s control over the Punjab region was tenuous, largely because of raids throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by Central Asia’s Mongols. Unprecedented in the speed of their terrifying spread across Asia and Europe, remarkable in their military prowess and hugely destructive in their raids, the Mongols repeatedly pillaged not only Iran and the Arab world but also India, especially Punjab. Though the Mongols stopped (or were stopped) before reaching Delhi, they destroyed much of Punjab.
