Twilight of the Sultanate c17.s10.16

c17.s10.16

In the social sphere also the Hindus and the Muslims were coming close to each other from the beginning of the fifteenth century. The very fact that the Hindus had to live under Muslim rule made them forget the angularities of an alien law. Whether in times of war or in peace, it was the rebel, the defiant and the recalcitrant who suffered whether he was a non-Muslim or a Muslim. There does not seem to have been any interference with the day-to-day life of the common man. Thus iconoclasm and conversions were being accepted as a matter of course and the people had learnt to accept Muslim rule with all its merits and faults. Conversions, too, in a way were helping to bring the Hindus and the Muslims together. The converted Muslims always remained half-Hindus as they carried with them the legacies of their former faith. They always had some old Hindu friends and relatives with whom they could not break their connections.