History of Medieaval Hindu India

This first volume contains the history of the first set of Hindu kingdoms which ruled in India from about 650 to 800 A. D., though in particular cases like that of Kashmir it has been found advisable to bring the history down to the end of the Hindu period i. e. to 1200 A. D., The origin of the Rajputs has been a much-debated topic among the historians. Colonial-era writers characterized them as descendants of the foreign invaders such as the Scythians or the Hunas, and believed that the Agnikula myth was invented to conceal their foreign origin. According to this theory, the Rajputs originated when these invaders were assimilated into the Kshatriya category during the 6th or 7th century. This volume brings down the history of India to about 1200 A.D. when the whole of Northern India Practically fall before the Mohomedans. The fall of Hindu India began in the very beginning of the sub-period treated in this volume, as Kabul and the Punjab fell before mohmud from about 1000 to 1009 A.D.