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Islamic Invasion of India

Before going into details, it is necessary to take a look at the political situation in India in the middle of the fourteenth century. Until then, the South Indian peninsula was under the rule of several Hindu kings, such as the famous Pandiyans of Madurai and the Cholas of Thanjavur. Crossing the northwestern border of India in 1000 AD, Mohhamedan army, led by Mahmud of Ghazni, carried out the first lightning strike in India. Mahmud began by invading and conquering the plains of Punjab. The advance continued, later invading Multan and other areas. Mahmud established his rule in the country by conquering Kalinga in 1021 and Kathiawar in 1023. Mahmoud's conquest of the nations was marked by brutal lightning attacks. The Islamic aggressors then dominated Delhi through a series of attacks over a period of two centuries. Subsequently, the whole of northern India was rioted with wars. At the end of the thirteenth century, the direction of their invasion turned south to Deccan. In 1293, Alauddin Khilji, the nephew of the King of Delhi, invaded and conquered Devagiri. Four years later, Gujarat was also attacked. In 1306, Devagiri was also invaded again. In 1309, General Malik Kafur; General of the Delhi Sultanate led his vast armed forces to the Deccan and captured Warangal. In 1310, Malik Kafur conquered the old capital of Hoysala Ballalas at Dwarasamudra and moved to the Malabar Coast, where he established a mosque and returned to his superiors with immense plunder. In 1312 war broke out again. 
Six years later, Devagiri was attacked by Delhi's Mubarak-led army, who brutally killed Prince Haripal Deva, beheaded him and displayed him at the city gates. In 1323, Warangal surrendered. In early 1330s, the northern Indian subcontinent up to the Vindhya Range was completely under the brutal dominion of Islamic rulers. People residing south of the Krishna River, under Hindu dominion was under constant threat of Islamic invaders. Things worsened when Muhammad Tughlaq came to power in 1325. Cruelty, intolerance, and treachery were the hallmarks of this ruler, but unbelievable stories of his extraordinariness were rife. He had the sole aim of exterminating the Hindu faith and religion itself. It was not until 1344 AD that the foreign invasion came to a sudden halt and end. South India was defended for 250 years by a strong opposition that followed. This was due to the combined effort of already defeated states of Warangal, Dwarasamudra, and a small part principality; Anegundi. This solid wall of defense then led to the rise of the Vijayanagara Empire. All the other South Indian kingdoms submitted to Vijayanagara and came under the rule of the kings here. If you draw a straight line from Bombay to Madras on the map of India, you will see the Tungabhadra River halfway through. The Tungabhadra, which flows through the forested and rocky country over 400 miles northwest of Bellari, flows through the northern part of the railway line from there to Dharwar. Anegundi was a prominent city that existed in the 1330s is this part of the northern river basin of the Tungabhadra. The small town was also home to a prominent family who owned a small state in the neighboring country. Utilizing the richness of the granite hills, they built a fort to protect the state.
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