Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c12.97

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He says that ever since the massacre of Nadir Shah, Delhi was "but very thinly populated." About the close of the eighteenth century, when he wrote, "the Bazars of Delhi are at present but indifferently furnished, and the population of late years miserably reduced." The population of the cities of the Punjab was disseminated by the invasions of Abdali. Rajasthan and Gujarat cities suffered hard from repeated Maratha incursions, while the other regions fared hardly better. No wonder that in the eighteenth century no foreign or Indian writer compares the population of Indian cities with those of London, Paris, Rome, Constantinople or Cairo.