Twilight of the Sultanate c17.s4.12

c17.s4.12

During the fourteenth century the Kshatriyas had been reduced to the position of big zamindars and petty rulers, except in Rajputana. But after Tīmūr's invasion they had gathered strength. Gwalior had been taken by them not to be recovered till the sixteenth century. Katēhār had become entirely Hindu. Hindus in general and Kshatriyas in particular had never been so strong ever since Muhammad Ghorī's invasion as they were in the first half of fifteenth century Hindustan.