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However, not even their wildest visions prepared them for the arrival of bearded men armed with swords and crossbows, in whose wake the Indian population plummeted from a peak of 275,000 to a mere 16,000 at the start of the 20th century.
The Rajputs made a belated alliance and fought valiantly from one desert fortress to another, but their elephants could not match their opponents’ fast horses and Afghan cavalry firing superior crossbows at the gallop.