[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Twilight of the Sultanate](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963) › c19.s3.20 # Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s3.20 Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s3.20 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s3.20) ¹³ H. W. Bellew, \*Journal of a political Mission to Afghanistan in 1857\*, 46 ff. Bellew also notes that these very characteristics are common to both the Rajputs and the Afghans and even thought that Sarban, a progenitor of the Afghan race, was a corruption of Sūryabans (Solar race) from which many Rajputs claim descent. Bellew, \*Races of Afghanistan\*, 23-24. Also Cf. Caroe, 85-88. - [Previous: c19.s3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s3.19) - [Next: c19.s3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s3.21) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19.s3.20) · Pramāṇa