Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s1.42

c5.s1.42

Under the accumulated force of all these principal political factors, the Hindu political structure gave way at the first approach of a powerful foreign invader. The masses of the people had seen the Huns, the Scythians, the Kushans, the Greeks, the Persians, and the Rajputs ruling over them. There was nothing particularly repulsive in an Arab, a Turk, or any other Muslim for that matter. No sooner did the Arab set foot on the soil of Sind than the Hindu Jat offered to help him, and the other outcasts welcomed him ; the great majority of people watched the fight of the ruling classes and the foreign invader with indifference, and the defeat of the former with a feeling relief. The approach of the Turkish invader witnessed a similar spectacle.