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