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

Maharana Sāngā. part of the hills. The rest of the hilly and forest tract was held by the mountain tribes of Bhils and Kolis, among whom some Raj- put princes, mostly connected with Mewar, had also founded petty States. The peninsula was in the hands of nine or ten Hindu tribes who had mostly come from Cutch and Sindh at different periods some centuries before. The real possessions of the kings of Gujarāt, therefore, only included the plain between the hills and the sea, and even of that the eastern part belonged to an independent Raja who resided in the hill fort of Champānēr. On the other hand, the Gujarāt territory stretched along the sea to the south-east so as to include the city of Surat and some of the country beyond it.¹ The Sultans maintained their power, as the Hindu Rajas were all disunited. Although none of the latter was strong enough to drive out the Sultan from Gujarāt, so powerful were these Rajas that the Sultan had at times to use all the resources of his kingdom to subdue even one of them. If they had com- ¹ Elphinstone's History of India, p. 673. (Edition of 1857 A.D.). 52