Twilight of the Sultanate c18.s6.10

c18.s6.10

Besides, their message lacked in emphasis on improving the economic condition of the people whom they had helped to see the light; and soon penury, fatal to progress, enveloped them in darkness again. Any social reform in India can be achieved the more successfully if it is given an economic basis. All efforts at reform are welcome, but there is no better leveller than prosperity; and changes in the economic life of a people bring in their wake many more social and psychological changes than mere religious reforms.