Founded by Nagabhata I c. 730 CE, the Pratiharas built a north Indian empire stretching from the Himalayas to the Narmada and repelled early Arab incursions from Sindh; reached its height under Mihira Bhoja (836-885).
Weakened by the Tripartite Struggle and Rashtrakuta sacks of Kannauj; finally shattered when Mahmud of Ghazni plundered Kannauj in 1018, with the last Pratihara ruler of Kannauj, Jasapala, dying in 1036.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty — the shape you scrub through changes in 730 · 850.
John Keay's acclaimed single-volume history of India places this dynasty within the sweep of the subcontinent's past.