The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.195

c20.195

Muslim writers themselves supply further evidence to show that reconversions on a mass scale used to take place in the 8th and 9th centuries. Al Biladuri, while describing the general condition of the Muslim power and religion in India towards the end of the 8th century, says that the Muslims were by that time compelled to retire from several parts of India and that the people of India had returned to idolatry *except those of Kassa.*¹⁵³ The sentence in italics shows that mass reconversions had taken place in several places in the latter half of the 8th century; the advice of Devala and Bṛhadyama was actually followed in the matter.¹⁵⁴