Storia do Mogor 72: Dancing-Women forced to Marry.

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In the reign of Shahjahan female dancers and public women enjoyed great liberty, as I have said, and were found in great numbers in the cities. For a time, at the beginning of his reign, Aurangzeb said nothing, but afterwards he ordered that they must either marry or clear out of the realm. This was the cause that the palaces and great enclosures where they dwelt went to ruin little by little; for some of them married and others went away, or, at least, concealed themselves.