महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

Maharana Sāngā. marched towards Idar.¹ He survived Bahadur Shah and died after A.D. 1543, and had the satisfaction of witnessing the beginning of the fall of the great enemy kingdom of Gujarāt. The inherent strength of the Hindus enabled them to stand a temporary occu- pation of their country. They were never completely subdued or crushed. Mr. A. K. Forbes in his Ras Mala, says : "Whatever deeds of oppression and of blood may have been enacted at the time, and however the Muhammadan rulers may have chosen to believe, or the Muhammadan historians to represent the Hindus to be a crushed, subdued people, the fact remains beyond dispute that their descendants, in spite of many a subsequent danger, still possess the soil of which it was sought to deprive them ; while little but squalid poverty and tottering ruins, represent the once proud sway of the dynasty of Shah Ahmad."² ¹ Forbes' Ras Mala, page 296. ² Forbes' Ras Mala, page 297. 88