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

Maharana Sāngā.
Government of India."¹ Had not a small
incident occurred on the field of Khānua on
16th March A.D. 1527, the crown of India
"might again have encircled the brow of a
Hindu, and the banner of supremacy been
transferred from Indraprastha to the battle-
ments of Chitor."²
The early part of the sixteenth century
witnessed the rapid decay of the Pathan power
in Northern India. The Lodi dynasty had
succeeded the Sayyads at Delhi. The fanati-
cal Sikander transferred the seat of govern-
ment to a more central position, Agra, in
the vain hope of strengthening the failing
sinews of the Pathan power in Hindustan,
which was crumbling to pieces. The cruelty,
distrustfulness and oppression of Sikander's
son Ibrahim led to numerous revolts in his
dominions, and the time was favourable
for the designs of a vigorous monarch like
Sāngā. "Mewar little dreaded these imperial
puppets, when ‘Amurath to Amurath
¹ W. Erskine's History of India, Vol. I., p. 469.
² Tod's Rajasthan, Vol. I., p. 300.
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