Kachwahas of Dhundhar

Who he is

Title

Kachwaha chief (bardic lists only)

Since

not pinned

Born

not pinned

Family

A Kachwaha (Kachhwaha) line claiming descent from Kusha, son of Rama

Confidence

low

Wikipedia's Kachwaha page gives conflicting founding dates for Dhundhar (967 and 1028) and no ruler for the twelfth century. The bardic lists (Tod and later) have Dulha Rao and, in 1207 by their reckoning, Kakil Dev taking Amber from the Minas; none of this is inscriptional.

Overlord

none shown

What it holds

• Dausa, Chaksu and Amber: not shown

Allies and rivals

Minas, Chahamanas, Ghurids.

How things stand that morning

Not recorded.

Wealth

Corridor tolls.

Threats

• The Ghurid road

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1207 (bardic)Kakil Dev takes Amber from the Minas (Tod's tradition; not an inscription)Depends on: The bardic tradition being right Stopped by: Mina resistance

Places of note

• Abaneri: The Chand Baori, a thirteen storey step well of the eighth or ninth century
• Bairat: Old town with Ashokan edicts, on the Delhi road

Where the sources disagree

• The campaign board entry amber-dhundhar: 'held by Kachhwaha chiefs whose own record before the fourteenth century is bardic rather than epigraphic'; the Wikipedia page agrees and adds that two founding dates conflict.

Evidence: One Wikipedia page and the campaign board.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

On the map: Contested ground, no lord attested.

Primary sources for Independent Rajput houses

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Crown of Glorious Deeds, Hasan Nizami (Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Hasan Nizami of Nishapur) (begun about 1205 at Delhi, carried on to about 1217). The earliest history written in Muslim India and the only contemporary account of Qutb al-Din Aibak's campaigns. Read online
• The Nasirean Generations (a general history of the Muslim dynasties), Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (completed 1260 at Delhi). The fullest narrative of the Ghurid conquest of northern India. Read online
• Epigraphia Indica: inscriptions of the Chandelas, Paramaras, Gahadavalas, Chaulukyas, Senas and Eastern Gangas, Various (edited for the Archaeological Survey of India by J. Burgess, E. Hultzsch, F. Kielhorn, Sten Konow, F. W. Thomas and successors) (inscriptions of the 1180s to 1210s; the series ran from 1892). The main record series for the Hindu kingdoms of northern India around 1200. Read online
• Historical Inscriptions of Gujarat, Various (the Chaulukya and Vaghela chanceries), edited by G. V. Acharya (inscriptions of the 10th to 14th centuries; edited 1933 to 1942). The standard corpus of Gujarat's inscriptions. Read online
• Inscriptions of the Paramaras, Chandellas, Kachchhapaghatas and two minor dynasties, Various, edited by H. V. Trivedi (inscriptions of the 9th to 14th centuries; edited 1978 to 1991). The collected records of the Paramaras of Malwa (parts 1 and 2) and of the Chandelas of Jejakabhukti (part 3), re-edited from Epigraphia Indica and earlier journals with new finds.
• The Victory of Prithviraja, Jayanaka (a Kashmiri poet at the Chahamana court) (about 1191 to 1192, left unfinished). A court epic written at Ajmer in the months between Prithviraja III's victory at Tarain in 1191 and his defeat and death in 1192. Read online
• The Wishing-Stone of Narratives, Merutunga (a Jain monk of the Nagendra gaccha) (1305 (Vikrama 1361) at Vadhvan in Gujarat). A Jain collection of historical anecdotes about the kings of Gujarat and Malwa, a century after 1200. Read online