Revisiting the Rajputana Rise

Book "Songs of the Rajputana" by Dr Shadab Ahmed is a bardic, historical, and colonial account of the Rajputs which traces the origin of the Rajputs and their venerated rise to become the embellished militant arm of the Brahmanical creed and the neo-Rajput revival of Brahmanism leading to the forging of the modern Hindu system.

- RUPALI SETHI

Much to our delight, the book sheds an ample amount and provides meticulous details in prose about the way in which the Rajputization of the Great Indian Northern Plains led to the establishment of Rajputana kingdoms and dynasties.

In addition to this, the book remarkably depicts the successive waves of Islamization, plunders, conquests, and invasions, starting with the Arabs, Pathans, Turks, Afghans, Zabulis, Ghors, Ghaznavids, Mongols, and Timurids.

Several important battles and conquests which sealed the fate of pre-medieval and medieval India have also been described as seen and discerned by the chroniclers.