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What if one winter siege could erase 100,000 lives and shatter an empire forever? In December 1398, Timur's ninety-thousand-strong army surrounded Delhi after crossing the Hindu Kush, targeting the weakened Tughluq Sultanate under Sultan Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah. Inside the city's temples, eighteen-year-old Sita—a sacred temple dancer bound by vows of purity—watched iron-shod cavalry pour through gates. Timur's strategy wasn't random pillage but systematic accounting: spare skilled artisans, eliminate "excess" captives, terrorize resistance into submission.
The destruction followed precise methodology: after defeating Mahmud Shah's war elephants at the Battle of Delhi on December seventeenth, Timur spent eight days cataloging plunder. Temple women, market wives, and cloistered daughters were herded to the plains before Siri fortress. When an elder defied orders, warriors executed near 100,000 captives methodically—not frenzied bloodlust but harvest-like efficiency. Sita escaped by plunging into the Yamuna River, swimming through arrow fire to the far bank. Survivors were marched to Samarkand as laborers, their skills building the Timurid capital's minarets.
Twentieth-century excavations at Purana Qila uncovered Chagatai-marked arrowheads mingled with shattered temple artifacts. Russian teams in 1940s Samarkand discovered deportation ledgers tallying Hindu craftswomen shipped east. The Zafarnama chronicles in Delhi's National Archives detail Timur's own justifications, while Tashkent museums display tapestries woven by captive hands.
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