Ram Vallabh Somani

Prithviraj Chauhan and His Times : My aim in writing this book is to study the struggle of Prithviraj Chauhan III against the Turks and to highlight the cultural activities of that period. The scholars stress exclusively on the chronicles of the Muslim-Court annalists who familiarized us with the invader’s version of conquest. The heroic resistance offered by the Chauhan rulers and other Rajputs residing on the border areas has not so far been studied in correct perspective. The Goverdhan and other memorial inscriptions are very important. These were engraved in order to commemorate the heroic deeds of those brave persons, who gave away their lives while fighting against the invaders in order to rescue “cows women and religious shrines”. good number of such inscriptions are still available on the border areas of Rajasthan. I have utilised some of these inscriptions for the first time.