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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3883399, member: 93416&quot;]Am not knowledgeable on Gujar matters, but I looked a bit into the sources last night. I do not have Maheshwari but he seems to broadly follow the lines laid out by James McNabb Campbell in this 1896 work:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm#pt1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm#pt1" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm#pt1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>See especially his chapter 10 here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm#ch1.10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm#ch1.10" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm#ch1.10</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Campbell drew extensively upon Hindu, Islamic and Chinese historical sources, but all of them are very incomplete, and he surely correctly leans very heavily on the evidence from copper plates.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to his reading, some Gujars emigrated from further North into Gujarat rather early. Campbell suspects this happened between 571 and 588 AD, if not earlier, and definitely before 649 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turning now to the coins, Mitchiner attributed the very earliest “Indo-Sasanian” issues to a similar period, but only to Northern Gujars in Sind and Rajasthan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its a salutary experience reading what Victorian fellows like Campbell managed to achieve in their spare time!</p><p><br /></p><p>The only living authors I can think of whose output compares are Michael Mitchiner and Stephen Album. And noteworthy I think that both are, like so many great Victorians, amateur scholars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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