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

Maharana Kumbha. the year 1297 A.D., when Sultan Ala-ud-din Khilji of Delhi sent Ulugh Khan to conquer it. The Chalukyas had succeeded the Cháurá Rajputs, who had founded Anhilwara Pātan, the celebrated Capital of Gujrat. The monar- chy of Gujrat reached the height of its magnificence and power under the Solanki monarchs Siddhráj Jaisingh and Kumár Pál (1094-1175 A.D.), when it triumphed over Malwa, conquered Chitor and defeated the Chauhān King Ânnādeva of Ajmer. Gujrat remained a tributary province of Delhi from A.D. 1297 to the year A.D. 1396, when the Viceroy, Zafar Khan, proclaimed his independence and mounted the throne of Gujrat¹ at Birpur, under the title of Muzaffar Shah. Zafar Khan was originally a Hindu named Sādharan of the Tánk tribe (Khatri), and after his conversion to Islam became the head of the kitchen to Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq who eventually appointed him Governor of Gujrat in place of the Farhatul- mulk. Muzaffar Shah was deposed by his son Tatarkhan with the aid of his uncle Shams- ¹ Lane Pool's Muhammadan Dynasties of India, p. 313. 43