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

Maharana Sāngā.
of one nation or a combination of nations
against another nation or two or more nations
combined. The entire intellectual, moral and
material resources of nations are mobilized and
used in the struggle. The result is that that
belligerent wins whose organisation is superior
and whose resources, taken as a whole, are
greater than those of the enemy. As a neces-
sary consequence, wars now are immeasurably
more devastating, and though both sides are
in the end exhausted, the vanquished is the
party clearly proved to be the weaker.
This also explains the vast difference that
we find between the nature and importance of
a battle in those days and a battle in the twen-
tieth century. The battle of Khānua, in which
the opposing armies numbered about three
lakhs, lasted a few hours, and what momentous
issues hung on the result of that battle! It
decided the fate of a country inhabited by a
fifth part of the human race. It threw back
for ever the advancing tide of the triumph-
ant Rajput race, and placed India, with a
civilization and culture as old as history and
as high as the highest in the world, under the
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