History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s6.12

v3.c33.s6.12

Various causes are assigned by historians or are usually imagined by people in this connection; but most of these in our view were non-existent or are not the real causess. Thus Lane-Poole remarks “To the contrast of union and disunion, north and south, race and climate was added the zeal of the Moslem and the greed of the robber”. Sachau thinks that the princes of Northern India were too narrowminded to see the danger and to unite (preface to Al-Beruni). Sardesai states that Mahmud knew that there were small kingdoms in India which were constantly fighting with one another and that he had a large army which he had to feed and employ somehow. How these various views are, in our opinion, not well-founded, we proceed to discuss at length.