The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.193
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.193
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The Hūnas are often mentioned in books and inscriptions in connexion with the Gurjaras, whose name survives in the modern Gūjars, a caste widely distributed in North-western India. The early Gurjaras seem to have been foreign immigrants, closely associated with, and possibly allied in blood to the White Huns. They founded a considerable kingdom in Rājputāna, the capital of which was Bhilmāl or Srīmāl, about 50 miles to the north-west of Mount Ābū. In course of time the Gurjara-Pratihāra kings of Bhilmāl conquered Kanauj and became the paramount power in Northern India, as will be related in the fourteenth chapter. The minor Gurjara kingdom of Bharōch (Broach) was an offshoot of the Bhilmāl monarchy.