The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c5.16

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⁵ Colonel Meadows Taylor, remarking upon this, says: "Mahomedan historians of the period relate that when the Deccan was invaded by Allah-ood-deen Togluk in A.D. 1294, and the conquest of Southern India completed by the Mogul General Mullikkafoor several years afterwards, the profession of music was found to be in a condition so far in advance of the North that singers, male and female, and their Brahmin instructors, were taken with the royal armies and settled in the North."—"Proceedings, Royal Irish Academy." Vol. IX., Part i.