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

Maharana Sāngā.
part of the hills. The rest of the hilly and
forest tract was held by the mountain tribes
of Bhils and Kolis, among whom some Raj-
put princes, mostly connected with Mewar,
had also founded petty States. The peninsula
was in the hands of nine or ten Hindu tribes
who had mostly come from Cutch and Sindh
at different periods some centuries before.
The real possessions of the kings of Gujarāt,
therefore, only included the plain between
the hills and the sea, and even of that the
eastern part belonged to an independent Raja
who resided in the hill fort of Champānēr.
On the other hand, the Gujarāt territory
stretched along the sea to the south-east
so as to include the city of Surat and some
of the country beyond it.¹ The Sultans
maintained their power, as the Hindu Rajas
were all disunited. Although none of the
latter was strong enough to drive out the
Sultan from Gujarāt, so powerful were these
Rajas that the Sultan had at times to use
all the resources of his kingdom to subdue
even one of them. If they had com-
¹ Elphinstone's History of India, p. 673. (Edition
of 1857 A.D.).
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