South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.41

c8.41

Such a treatment could not but leave the feudatories smarting under the disgrace, and would inevitably lead to an effort to re-assert their own dignity and to be on the look out for opportunities to inflict similar humiliation in their turn. That seems to have been the frame of mind of the Pāṇḍyan feudatories and instances of retaliation will appear in the history of their restoration.