The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s15.2

c7.s15.2

During this period the Mussalmans enjoyed a genuine hegemony and paramountcy, although very often through the medium of small Moslem states in conflict with one another. But already towards the end of the fourteenth century (with the decline of Tughlaks) the "Rajputs" were reasserting themselves and establishing sovereign states. They had to submit to the Moghuls in the sixteenth century but again re-conquered their freedom with the decline of the Moghuls in the eighteenth.