The Rashtrakutas and their Times c24.11

c24.11

The careful student of the Hindu history cannot help regretting that the political thinkers in India should ever have adumbrated the principle that a conqueror should not supplant, but merely reduce, the conquered king, and that it should have been so widely respected. The resources of the empires, like those of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, were unnecessarily frittered away in suppressing the rebellions of feudatories, who should never have been allowed to exist. The present writer believes that if the policy of ruthless annexation had been followed consistently since the days of Chandragupta Maurya, there would have been evolved in India stronger and stabler states, and it would not have been possible for foreigners like the Scythians, Hunas, and Muslims to get so easy a footing in India.