The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c21.3

c21.3

The Hindu kingdoms, it has been observed in an earlier part of this book, engaged in ceaseless warfare among themselves almst as a hobby. The Chauhana, the Chandella, the Gahdvala and also the Sena rulers, fought for paramountcy and territorial aggrandisement at each other's cost, and so one's discomfiture at the hands of a foreign enemy was considered another's