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 DEATH OF MOHAMMAD GHOEI 61 to be crushed and chiefs to be subdued: India was not to be subjugated in a generation. But the conquest was real and permanent, and though Mohammad was no Indian sovereign, but still King of Ghazni with eyes turned toward Persia and the Oxus, he left a viceroy in Hindustan who began the famous Slave dynasty, the first of the many Moslem kings that have ruled India. Of the two tides of Mohammedan invasion that surged into India, Mahmud's had left little trace. It had been but a series of triumphant raids, and when SILVER COIN OF MOHAMMAD GHORI, STRUCK AT GHAZNI, A. H. 596 (A. D. 1199). its violence was spent, scarcely enough strength re- mained to hold a single province. That province, how- ever, had been held, not without a struggle, and in the Panjab Mohammad Grhori found the necessary base from which to bear upon a wider territory than his pre- cursor. He rose from even smaller beginnings than Mahmud, but his followers possessed the same hardi- hood and power of endurance as the earlier invaders from the identical mountain valleys, and they carried their arms farther and left surer footprints. The dy- nasty of Ghor relapsed into the insignificance of a high- land chief dom after its great Sultan's death; but the