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

Maharana Sāngā. Government of India."¹ Had not a small incident occurred on the field of Khānua on 16th March A.D. 1527, the crown of India "might again have encircled the brow of a Hindu, and the banner of supremacy been transferred from Indraprastha to the battle- ments of Chitor."² The early part of the sixteenth century witnessed the rapid decay of the Pathan power in Northern India. The Lodi dynasty had succeeded the Sayyads at Delhi. The fanati- cal Sikander transferred the seat of govern- ment to a more central position, Agra, in the vain hope of strengthening the failing sinews of the Pathan power in Hindustan, which was crumbling to pieces. The cruelty, distrustfulness and oppression of Sikander's son Ibrahim led to numerous revolts in his dominions, and the time was favourable for the designs of a vigorous monarch like Sāngā. "Mewar little dreaded these imperial puppets, when ‘Amurath to Amurath ¹ W. Erskine's History of India, Vol. I., p. 469. ² Tod's Rajasthan, Vol. I., p. 300. 50