A History of the Mahrattas v1.c20.59

v1.c20.59

¹ He was a Nagur Bramin, a tribe common in Guzerat, who, since the times of the Mahomedan kings of that country, had been distinguished in the Mahomedan service, both as men of business and as soldiers. [Professor D. R. Bhandarkar has shown that the Guhilots and Sisodiyas of Mewār, the proudest of the Rājpūt septs, were originally Nāgar Brahmans, who were the priests of the Gurjaras. The Gurjaras, whose name survives in that of the Gūjars of the present day, were a powerful tribe which invaded India in the train of the Hūnas, or Huns, in the fifth and early sixth centuries. (Crooke in J. R. Anth. I., xl. (1910) ; Smith, E.H.I., 3rd ed., p. 420, and Akbar, 85 n.)]