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

Maharana Sāngā.
marched towards Idar.¹ He survived Bahadur
Shah and died after A.D. 1543, and had the
satisfaction of witnessing the beginning of
the fall of the great enemy kingdom of
Gujarāt.
The inherent strength of the Hindus
enabled them to stand a temporary occu-
pation of their country. They were never
completely subdued or crushed. Mr. A. K.
Forbes in his Ras Mala, says : "Whatever
deeds of oppression and of blood may have
been enacted at the time, and however
the Muhammadan rulers may have chosen
to believe, or the Muhammadan historians
to represent the Hindus to be a crushed,
subdued people, the fact remains beyond
dispute that their descendants, in spite of
many a subsequent danger, still possess
the soil of which it was sought to deprive
them ; while little but squalid poverty and
tottering ruins, represent the once proud
sway of the dynasty of Shah Ahmad."²
¹ Forbes' Ras Mala, page 296.
² Forbes' Ras Mala, page 297.
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