महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha. political foresight, which comes only of full national consciousness. The introduction of the caste system in the social polity of the Hindus cut up the nation into a number of parts, each part becoming, as time progressed, more and more conscious of its separateness from the other parts, and sapped the foundations of a common nationality and destroyed national consciousness among the Hindus. Historical and other records show that the Hindus long before the earliest invasions from the North West began to take place, had, owing to their acceptance of certain moral and spiritual principles of life ceased to be an aggressive race. The wish to dominate other people for their economic exploitation or, to impose their rule in order to force their reli- gious beliefs on the subject races, has always been absent from their character. They never thought of invading their neighbours' countries like Mahmud Ghaznavi, Shahbuddin Ghori, Timur, or Changez Khan. Live and let live, has been their rule of life, due to the teachings 201