महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha.
political foresight, which comes only of full
national consciousness.
The introduction of the caste system in the
social polity of the Hindus cut up the nation
into a number of parts, each part becoming, as
time progressed, more and more conscious of its
separateness from the other parts, and sapped
the foundations of a common nationality and
destroyed national consciousness among the
Hindus.
Historical and other records show that the
Hindus long before the earliest invasions from
the North West began to take place, had,
owing to their acceptance of certain moral and
spiritual principles of life ceased to be an
aggressive race. The wish to dominate other
people for their economic exploitation or, to
impose their rule in order to force their reli-
gious beliefs on the subject races, has always
been absent from their character. They never
thought of invading their neighbours' countries
like Mahmud Ghaznavi, Shahbuddin Ghori,
Timur, or Changez Khan. Live and let live,
has been their rule of life, due to the teachings
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