✓In A.D.1337 Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq, the Sultan of Delhi, is said to have sent an expedition against a hill chieftain Raja Prithvi Chand (A.D.1330-1345) of Kangra.
✓The Sultan personally undertook this campaign and caputered the Nagarkot.
✓The sultan is said to have great religious tolerance and spared the temple of Jwalamukhi from plundering which is evident from "Sirat-i-Firoz Shahi".
✓But neither Feristha, the author of "History of the Rise of Muhammadan Power in India" nor 'Zia-ud-Din Barni', the author of "Tarikh-i-Firozshani" has made any reference to Tughlaq's invasion of Kangra fort.
✓However, Badr-i-Chach, a poet at the Muhammadan court, narrated in his 'ode' that the seige took place in A.D. 1337 that is the year of the so-called invasion of China by Muhammad Tughlaq.
✓He did not accompany the army, and the invasion was only an incursion of short duration into the outer himalayas.
✓It may have been up to the Satluj valley, and a detachment may have reached Kangra which was famous all over India.
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