Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c12.35
Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c12.35
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In the seventeenth century the territories of the Mughal empire reached the peak of expansion. Mughal dominions had gone on expanding right from the days of Akbar. Under Aurangzeb the Mughal empire extended from Ghazni to Chittagong and Kashmir to Carnatic. According to Bakhtawar Khan, the author of *Mirat-ul-Alam*, even Laddakh and Malabar formed parts of Aurangzeb's empire To it Arakan was added in 1670 by Shaista Khan, the governor of Bengal. Expansion of Mughal territories added the population of the acquired regions. This obviously meant increase in the total population of India.