History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s22.12

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On the disastrous results of these wars with the neighbouring kingdoms we will speak later on; but they established the fame of Prithvirāja and he has rightly been called emperor of Northern India. He was king of Ajmer and Delhi and emperor or Chakravartin of Northern India (like George V, king of England and Emperor of India). This position of a chakravartin was the bone of contention among Rajput kings: and each powerful king tried to assert it; even the kings of Konkan, as we have seen, called themselves Konkana-Chakravartin. The competitor of Prithvirāj to Imperial dignity was Jaichand of Kanauj whose grand-father Govindachandra was really emperor over the whole of Northern India; that position was wrested from his son by Visaladeva in about 1160 A.D. and the conquest and annexation of Delhi added to the power of the Chauhans. This contest between Prithvirāja and Jaichand weakened their power to resist the Mahomedans under Ghori. How it finally led to the conquest of both, we go on to describe.