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

FOREWORD. MAHARANA SANGA, the Hindupat (Chief of the Hindus), flourished at one of the most critical periods in Indian history. Towards the end of the twelfth century A.D., the Afghans usurped supreme power in Upper India and Hindu supremacy came to an end. With the rise, however, of Mewar and the rapid expansion of the Rāthors in Western Rajputana, the Rajputs gathered strength and the Afghan power gradually declined, and the political horizon of India showed unmistake- able signs that the time was not distant when the Rajputs would recover their lost supremacy in the country. At this juncture, Sāngā appeared on the scene to lead them to their patrimony. He was at once recognised as the leader of the Hindus. His patriot- ism and a high sense of duty, his generosity and high-mindedness, his heroism and his position as the head of the most powerful kingdom in Hindustan marked him out as the person best fitted to hold the exalted position to which he was called by universal consent. Sāngā was the last of the Indian sovereigns under whom all the Rajput tribes combined to repel the foreign invader. Though leaders arose in later times and heroes performed deeds of unsurpassed valour, waged great wars, and defied the might of the mightiest empire of those times, yet never again did a Rajput arise who commanded the willing homage of the entire Rajput race and led the chivalry of Rajputana, composed of all