Twilight of the Sultanate c17.s7.22

c17.s7.22

¹⁰² T.S.A., 50-52. Also S.A., 313. al-Qalqashindi contradicts himself when at one place he says that grapes were produced in India in abundance (49-50) and at another place writes: “there are few gardens but no grapes” (p. 28). 'Afif joyously mentions the fact that seven kinds of grapes were produced in the orchards of Delhi. T.F.S. (A), 295-96. Also T.F.S. (B), 569. Ibn Battūta writes that the postal service was utilised for importing fruit. “And the fruits of Khurāsān,” says he, “which are much sought after in India are often conveyed by this means.” E and D, III, 588.