Prithviraj Raso appears to be an account of affair of war, but the poem is a source of information on the social and clan structure of the Rajput communities of Northern India.
The vacuum of power in Hindustan after A.D.650 led to a period of confusion and disorder. This chaos was filled by the emergence of various Rajput clans who nevertheless were often at war with one another, but aligned together, keeping aside their personal differences, to face the frequent inroads of a new common foe, the Muhammadans from the west.
It was in these times that the modern vernacular literature of Hindustan was taking shape and appeared in North in the form of the bardic chronicles of Rajputana.
The stirring times in which they lived produced ample themes for the royal bards and the liberal patronage of monarchs encouraged their labours. The greatest name in the literature of that period is that of Chand Bardai, the bard....
