Meister-Chair Professor of Art-History at UPenn-published a monograph on the temple-architecture of Sahis he had worked with Rahman on multiple field investigations.
He has since published on the subject extensively and is considered to be an authority on the subject. In 1979, Abdur Rehman received his PhD from Australian National University on "history, archaeology, coinage, and paleography" of the Turk Shahis and Hindu Shahis under the supervision of Arthur Llewellyn Basham.
Both of these works are considered outdated and inaccurate, at large. were laden with errors, primarily stemming from an exclusive dependence upon English translations of Arabic/Persian chronicles. The next year, Deena Bandhu Pandey-Professor of Art History at Banaras Hindu University-published his doctoral dissertation but his handling of Muslim sources, coins etc. The first comprehensive volume on the subject appeared in 1972 by Yogendra Mishra, a professor in the Department of History of Patna University he explored the Rajatarangini meticulously but lacked in numismatics and paleography. Ĭolonial scholars- James Prinsep, Alexander Cunningham, Henry Miers Elliot, Edward Thomas et al.-had published on the Hindu Shahis, primarily from a numismatic perspective. Scholarship on Hindu Shahis remain scarce.
Details regarding past rulers can only be assembled from disparate chronicles, coins and stone inscriptions. The Hindu Shahis (also known as Odi Shahis, Uḍi Śāhis, or Brahman Shahis, 822–1026 CE) were a dynasty that held sway over the Kabul Valley, Gandhara and western Punjab during the early medieval period in the Indian subcontinent.
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