Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India

The story begins in 1025 when Mahmud of Ghazni sacks Somnath Temple and breaks the idol of Lord Shiva. The prince of Shravasti Malladev dies trying to save the temple. When his brother Suheldev comes to know of this, he feels enraged and promises retaliation.

Together with his father Mangaldhawj, Suheldev goes to Kannauj to ask for King Ajitpal's help in countering Mahmud's further attacks. But instead, they are insulted and sent back. On their way back, they notice a Turkish camp and engage in a fight with them. They kill all of them and realize that the Turks can be beaten if taken by surprise. So Suheldev decides to exile himself and attack the Turks by surprise while pretending to have rebelled against Mangaldhawj so that Mahmud doesn't attack Shravasti.

Suheldev starts living as a bandit along with his trusted aides among which there is an Indian Muslim called Abdul. He lives in the forest area between Kannauj and Haridway, attacking the Turk colonies in the kingdoms. He also befriends the locals there with whom he trades for food.

One day, he sends Abdul to Haridway to trade deer meat for cooked food. There, Abdul sees a Turkish governor Salik Khan, an envoy of Mahmud, looting temples. Engaged, Abdul attacks him but is taken captive and is tortured by the Turks who torture him even more after they discover he is a Muslim supporting Hindus. Suheldev arrives him and saves Abdul and kills Salik Khan along with all the Turks.

Years pass and by 1029, Suheldev becomes famous as the bandit prince and a thorn in the side of the Turks. During this time, he also loots Qasar Khan, a special envoy of Mahmud who is the governor of Kannauj but treats his wife with respect and is kind to his six year old. After looting them, he lets them go. He also visits Bareilly and meets a Turk called Aslan who is a disciple of the Sufi saint Nuruddin Shaikh. Once a maulvi called Zayan gets into a conflict with Nuruddin calling him a supporter of kafirs and Zayan's nephew attacks Nuruddin. In order to save Nuruddin, Aslan attacks Zayan's nephew, killing him in the process. Due to this Nuruddin casts Aslan away as he hates bloodshed. Suheldev who was watching this befriends Aslan and invites him to join his team to which he agrees. He sometimes goes to spy on Turk soilders for Suheldev as he himself is a Turk and understands Turkish.

In 1030, the Turks attack Delhi. Delhi's king Mahipal Tomar is killed in the battle and thus the Turks win Delhi. After winning, the Turks kill all the soilders and after that all the males of Delhi, not sparing even babies. Women are sold in slave markets. Everyone who was related to the king is killed so that there can be no claim to the throne except for two people — Jaichand, Mahipal's son-in-law and the ruler of Sirat who wasn't present in Delhi and the king's commander-in-chief Govardhan whose father was the king's fifth cousin. Govardhan is saved because he retreats in time with a band of 30 soldiers.

Govardhan decides to go Sirat for Jaichand's help but on the way, a woman tells him that Jaichand is a supporter of the Turks and he would had him over to them and that was the reason why he didn't help Mahipal in the battle. The woman is later revealed to be Suheldev's spy and tells him the whereabouts of Suheldev and Govardhan joins Suheldev.

Suheldev and his team go to villages attacked by the Turks. On one such visit, he goes to a village of leather workers which is destroyed by the Turks and all the people killed except a woman called Toshan who was saved because she was away when the Turks attacked. Toshani used to be a soilder in Kannauj army but deserted it when Kannauj surrendered to Mahmud of Ghazni. Toshani joins Suheldev's team. Suheldev later falls in love with Toshani.

In one of his attack on Turks, Suheldev is gravely injured and could have died, had Aslan not saved him. But it turned out that Aslan was actually Mahmud's nephew Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud in disguise and he only helped and saved Suheldev to kill him at the right place and at the right time so that he may be made into a good example. It also turns out that he went to meet Karim in his spy mission, who was the head of Turkish invasion of India. It is also revealed that Karim was Masud's lover.

In the meantime, Mahmud dies of some unknown reason and a civil war breaks out among his sons. As a result, all the Turk armies are called back and so is Masud as he was Mahmud's strongest commander in chief. So he tells the news of Mahmud's death to Suheldev saying Turks are not going to attack India for some years as they are into a civil war. He further tells him that he is not required in the mission for sometime as the Turks are gone and he is going to find some new sufi master for himself. Thus, he leaves Suheldev and sets back to Ghazni inorder to help Mahmud's rightful heir get the throne. At the same time, Mangaldhawj dies of cancer and Suheldev returns to his kingdom and ascends the throne. Before his death, Mangaldhawj, had created a confedracy of 21 kings to repel any Turkic invasion and Suheldev leads it.

In 1033, the war of succession in Ghazni ends with Mas'ud I of Ghazni as the new sultan who killed his younger brother Muhammad of Ghazni to get the throne. After becoming the emperor, he sends Salar Masud to India with a very large army to make it a part of the Ghaznavid Empire.

As he enters northwest India, Suheldev send his guru to Rajendra Chola for help. It is revealed that it was actually Rajendra Chola who ordered for Mahmud's assasination to avenge Somnath temple. Rajendra Chola agrees to help Suheldev.

As Masud advances, Ajitpal joins him with the Kannauj army. Masud also goes to Suheldev disguised as Aslan and gets all the information about his war strategy. But it's then revealed that Aslan was actually Masud's twin brother who was his opposite and supported Indians.

The battle day finally arrives. The Kannauj army refuses to fight for Masud and rebels but the army of Manohargarh joins Masud with its king Jaichand.

Finally in 1034, a fierce battle is fought at Baharaich in which Suheldev kills Jaichand but Govardhan's hand is fractured, Abdul loses an eye and Toshani is gravely injured. Suheldev is on the verge of losing but the Chola army arrives right in time to save the day. Every single Turk in their army of 60000 is killed and their bodies burned for the Turks didn't fear death but feared cremation as they belived it stops one's entry to heaven. Salar Masud is captured and behaded by Suheldev publicly. His body is burnt and its ashes are sent to Ghazni in an urn. His head is preserved and sent to Ghazni along with his ashes with a message inscribed on his forhead — "Come to India as devotees and our motherland will welcome you. But come as invaders and we will burn every single one of you."

After this incident, Somnath temple is reconstructed and no foreigner dares to look at India for the next 150 years.

The book was scheduled to be released in 2018 by the title Suheldev and the Battle of Bahraich. But it couldn't be released as people protested against it and even sued the author. This happened because Suheldev was mentioned as a Rajbhar Pasi in the book and many castes claimed him so it was unclear which caste he belonged to and the other castes protested. However two years later it was finally released after removing the caste related things form the book and changing the name to Legend of Suheldev — The King Who Saved India. The book's cover was also changed. Unlike the previous cover on which the co writer Vikas Gupta's name was mentioned, on this new cover it was replaced by Writer's club. Unlike Amish's other books, this book isn't solely written by Amish but is a collective effort of Amish and his team. In an interview, Amish told the team did the work of writing the body and he just edited and wrote the final draft.

Drop marketing technique is used. Unlike Amish's other works, due to the outrage of fans, no teasing was done in case of book launch. Amish usually has a trend of first revealing the title, then the cover, then the trailer and then launch of the book. This trend was broken with this as it was launched directly. Unlike other books which are launched in the evenings, this book was launched at midnight like his book, "Secret of the Nagas" where stores opened at midnight and was flooded with customers . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Amish couldn't return to India from London so he decided to launch it in his Instagram Live from his house in London instead of organizing an offline book launch event.