Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c11.132

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However, Moreland himself gives up this method for calculation about northern India because he believed, "that the strength of the Mogul forces is unknown". Such is not the case, and one wonders how he missed to take notice of the information in the *Ain-i-Akbari* and Elphinstone’s history. It is true that not all this army of more than 4 millions was ever called to fight at one single time, still its numerical strength should have helped him in estimating the population of the North as the strength of armies in the South had helped him in estimating the population of the South.