Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c12.29

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²¹ Early in the sixteenth century Barbosa wrote of the Coromandel coast that if the rains failed it caused heavy mortality and children were sold for less than a rupee. "Caesar Frederic describes the sale of children in Gujarat about 1560, Linschoten when living in Goa saw children brought to be sold, and adults seeking to be enslaved. *Ibid.*, p. 266. Also cf. Payne, *Akbar and the Jesuits, op. cit.* (VI, n. 107), pp. 77-78 for Kashmir. "From the annual report of the Jesuit missions for 1597 we learn that the pestilence was raging in Lahore in that year, and that the Fathers baptized many children abandoned by their parents". *Cam. History of India*, IV, *op. cit.* (VI, n. 97), p. 142.