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The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c20.58

The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c20.58

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c20.58

² If the Turushkadanda is interpreted as meaning a poll tax on the Turks living in the Gahdvala kingdom the tax must have been familier to the Indians. Some kind of poll-tax was realised in the Byzantine empire also.