Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c12.79

c12.79

This picture may be a little overdrawn. But Khafi Khan, 'one of the best and most impartial historians' of Mughal India, says almost the same thing about the Deccan during Aurangzeb's last days; and he makes repeated references to killings, destruction of cultivation, the reduction of carriage-animals to 'skin and bone', the ravaging and burning of the inhabited places.⁵⁹ Such details certainly show a turn in the demographic trend.