History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c8.s1.17

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We will now pass on to consider how far the history of the Gujars contradicts the inference drawn from their physical characteristics viz., that they must be treated unquestionably as Aryans. A great deal of unhistorical bias has confused historians on this point and has misled them to consider them as foreigners and Mongolians. There is no doubt that historically speaking the word Gujar or Gurjara occurs from about the 7th century A. D. and prominently in the work of Bāṇa and Hiuen Tsang. The former mentions them as being conquered by Prabhākaravardhana, much in the same way as he conquered the Huns; while the latter mentions two Gurjara kingdoms one in Rajputana at Bhinmāl and the other at Broach From this, historians suddenly jump to the conclusion that the Gujars were foreigners who came into India along with the Huns in about the 6th century. (V. Smith E. H. 3rd Edn. pages 322 and 412). But Smith is candid enough to admit that the Gurjaras are believed to have entered India either along with or soon after the White Huns and to have settled in large numbers in Rajputana, but that there is nothing to show what part of Asia they came from or to what race they belonged (p. 412). If there is no mention any where in history as to where from, when and whether the Gujars came into India from outside, why should historians have believed that they came at all from outside? It seems that this is merely a suggestion made by bias and in defiance of the ethnological argument which clearly proves that the Gujars belong to the Aryan race.