Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c10.76

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The total area of India before partition (or the India of medieval times minus Kabul and Qandhar) was 4,052,950 sqr. km. Firoz's empire comprised approximately one fourth of this area, and contained 43 million inhabitants. The population of the whole of India, therefore, was roughly four times this number or 172 million. But since the empire of Firoz had within its dominions rather thickly populated regions, the total popultion of India was probably a little less than 172 million, say approximately 168 to 170 million.