Hand Book on Rajputs

it was chiefly in the tract watered by the Jumna and the Ganges from Delhi on the west to Ajudhya and Benares on the east that the Brahmans consolidated their influence and became a compact learned and influential body the authors of Sanskrit literature and the lawgivers scientists and philosophers of the whole of the Hindu world. [...] From a remote period however there was a traditional struggle for supremacy between the Rajptits of the Ganges and the Jumna ; and when the hordes of Islam poured through the Khaibar into India the Chauhdns of Delhi were The dissensions of the 116.jpdt at feud with the Rdthors of Kanouj. [...] He was the first of the Muhammadan rulers of India who strove to bring the whole of the continent under the sway of one sceptre by enlisting the sympathies of the various races included in his dominions. [...] to the Mutiny but mention must be made of the heroic devotion of the faithful few "who remained true to their colours at a time when the overthrow of the British dominion in India appeared to be almost inevitable." The native troops of the gallant garrison which defended the Reidecy at Lucknow was composed of some Sikhs and the loyal remnants of the 3th 48th and 71st Native Infantry whose [...] The brilliant leading of the officers and the dashing onslaught of the men prevailed against the undisciplined bravery of the Burmans who broke and fled leaving six guns as trophies to the victors.