Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c12.2

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The peace Akbar bestowed upon the country helped in the rise of population in the years that followed. In the seventeenth century the Mughal emperors Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb ruled. And contemporary accounts vouch that under them the forces leading to prosperity and therefore demographic growth were in full operation. Wars were there no doubt, but the major ones were fought beyond the Indus—in Qandhar and Afghanistan regions. The population of the Indian subcontinent as such was not affected by wars, except in the Deccan and that too in the last two decades of the century.