Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c11.84

c11.84

The impression of European travellers in the sixteenth century was that India was a very thickly populated country. Almost all of them hailed not from European villages but from its important and well populated cities. But they were invariably struck by the crush of the people in the Indian cities. The impression they leave is that India’s cities swarmed with people, and its population was probably larger than that of Europe. They would not have repeatedly and enthusiastically written about India's teeming numbers if her population would have been lower or even equal to that of Europe.