K.S. Lal has collected some figures. The army of Mahmud Ghaznavi (c. AD 1000), which sacked the Somnath temple before being thrown back with heavy losses, employed 30,000 camels only for carrying the water supplies. Mohammed Ghori, the actual conqueror of North India (AD 1192), had 120,000 cavalry. Controlling the conquered territory required even larger armies: Alauddin Khilji had 475,000 horsemen under his command, Mohammed Tughlaq had 900,000. The Bahmani sultanate in the Dekhan recruited many thousands of soldiers from the Muslim countries per year; when this inflow was reduced because the
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