History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s7.14

v3.c33.s7.14

The above description brings out two new facts. First the mining of the walls; when we hold that gunpowder was not known in those days, it could only have been carried out with some other explosive; but what that was it is difficult to say. Secondly the slaughter of Brahmins was an advance on the severity of Mahomedan fighting in the days of Mahmud (Utbi never mentions it in his detailed account, possibly by oversight). The Rajputs of Northern India were men of a different spirit than the Kshatriyas of the Panjab. They were accustomed to rule and never to be ruled. It appears that the fort and the district was retaken by the Tomars of Delhi, who were then rising to power under the Chauhans, in 1043 A. D. as Firishta has related ( Hissar Gazetteer p. 20. ).