Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c11.106

c11.106

The above assessment of the population of the country and some selected cities points to India being well-populated. European visitors, however, nowhere mention any rise or or fall in population. In this regard the country's political history provides the trends and, as said earlier, the numbers declined rapidly in the fifteenth century and rose again during Akbar's reign. (A D. 1556-1605). Even during the second half of the sixteenth century some regions lost in numbers like Vijayanagar, while Lahore and Agra, and the tract lying between the two, rose in prestige and population. From the notices of foreigners studied in the historical background of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the following picture of the population of the country emerges about the end of the sixteenth century.