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1. 1Desai, Madhuri (2017). _Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City_. University of Washington Press. ISBN9780295741604.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed14. ↑Matthew Atmore Sherring (1968). _The Sacred City of the Hindus An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times_ (First ed.). London: Trübner & Company.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗21. ↑Satish Chandra (2007). _History of Medieval India:800-1700_. Orient Longman. p.71. ISBN978-81-250-3226-7. In 1194, Muizzuddin returned to India. He crossed the Jamuna with 50,000 cavalry and moved towards Kanauj. A hotly contested battle between Muizzuddin and Jaichandra was fought at Chandawar near Kanauj. We are told that Jaichandra had almost carried the day when he was killed by an arrow, and his army was totally defeated. Muizzuddin now moved on to Banaras which was ravaged, a large number of temples there being destroyed
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed23. 1Udayakumar, S. P. (2005). "Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past". _Presenting the Past: Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India_. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.99. ISBN978-0-275-97209-7.
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