The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s10.7

c7.s10.7

The discomfiture of some of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra (Rajput) states at the hands of the Mussalman Turks in the tenth century has surely to be appraised as the fourth term in the same series of Islamic expansion or Hindu decline. Naturally there cannot be any harm in selecting just these events as the constituents of a landmark. And yet it is questionable if this fourth dose, cumulatively with the previous three, was big enough to raise the new foreign rulers to the status *de jure* or *de facto* of "paramount" power (Sultanate) in India.