Why didn't the mongols invade India?

Aladdin Khilji did manage to defeat them. And this was the zenith of the Delhi Sultanate, remember. by the time Babur came, it had cracked into little pieces and was generally open to invasion.

My understanding is that it was more a matter of a mix of display of power (the Delhi Sultanate was quite a power at that time), unusually sensible and effective diplomacy, and some gifts/tributes, more than impressive military success by the Delhi rulers.
However, the Mongols had easier fishes to catch and fry.
 
My understanding is that it was more a matter of a mix of display of power (the Delhi Sultanate was quite a power at that time), unusually sensible and effective diplomacy, and some gifts/tributes, more than impressive military success by the Delhi rulers.
However, the Mongols had easier fishes to catch and fry.

It was, but my post was more directed at the argument towards why Babur was so much more effective where the Mongols were not.

To be fair however, at one point Alauddin actually did go and attack the Mongols.
 
The Mongols did like to press into service those they conquered and use them to conquer other people. I always here the 'The Horse Archers couldn't go there', but like the Arabs the Mongol military forces did not entirely consist of Horse Archers.
 
The Mongols did like to press into service those they conquered and use them to conquer other people. I always here the 'The Horse Archers couldn't go there', but like the Arabs the Mongol military forces did not entirely consist of Horse Archers.

So who are you going to send in? Chinese infantry, with logistical lines that a pyromaniac twelve year old could ruin?

Persians, who don't have a fraction of the numbers?
 
Well, that's kind of a big deal isn't it?

Yeah...it is. And IIRC he defeated them in battle three times....they attacked while he was attacking Chittor, forcing him to retreat and reconsolidate, and when he actively went and attacked them. I forget the third instance, or perhaps there isn't one...
 
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