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³⁴ It is interesting that C. V. Vaidya's *History of Mediæval Hindu India* (Poona) Vol. I. (c 600-800), 1921, Vol. II. (c 750-1000), 1924 and Vol. III. (c 1,000-1,200) 1926, interprets the mediæval Hindu period as the period "from the accession of Harsha, the last Buddhist Emperor of India, to the death of Prithvīrāja the last Hindu Emperor of India" (Preface to Vol. II). One can hardly accept the proposition that the category "Emperor of India" ought to be applied either to Harṣa or to Prithvīrāja. Besides, the last great "Buddhist" sovereign was Dharmapāla (795-830?) or Devapāla of Bengal, and the last great "Hindu" sovereign Baji Rao I. (1720-1740), the Peshwa or perhaps Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), the Punjabi.