The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s9.17

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The prominent position occupied by Gurjara kingdoms in early mediaeval times is a recent discovery. The existence of a small Gurjara principality at Bharōch (Broach), and of a larger state in Rājputāna, had been known to archaeologists for many years, but the recognition of the fact that Bhoja, and the other kings of the powerful Kanauj dynasty in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were Gurjaras is of recent date. Certain misreadings of epigraphic dates had obscured the true history of that dynasty, until the correct readings were established. It is now definitely proved that Bhoja (*c.* A. D. 840–90), his predecessors and successors, belonged to the Pratihāra (Parihār) clan of the Gurjara tribe or caste, and, consequently, that the well-known clan of Parihār Rājpūts is a branch of the Gurjara or Gūjar stock.²