Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c16.14

c16.14

During the reign of Iltutmish, the Khwarizmi prince Jalaluddin Mangbarani fleeing before Chingiz escaped into India with 10,000 *followers (1221). Even after his return (1224), some of his followers* would have stayed on here⁹. Because of the Mongol upheaval, again, in the court of Iltutmish there arrived twentyfive princes with their retinues from Iraq, Khurasan and Mawaraun Nahr.¹⁰ During the reign of Sultan Balban fifteen more refugee princes arrived from Turkistan, Mawaraun Nahr, Khurasan, Iraq, Azarbijan, Persia, Rum and Sham.¹¹ It appears that each came with a large number of followers because Balban allotted for their residence a locality (*mohalla*) each.¹² These followers comprised masters of pen and of sword, scholars and *mashaikh*, reciters and musicians. The fact that Balban had garrisoned the forts of Gopalgin, Kampil, Patiali, Bhojpur and Jalali with thousands of Afghan troops,¹² and in the royal procession 500 Sistani, Ghori, Samarqandi and Arab soldiers with drawn swords used to march by his side, indicates that a large number of foreigners had come to India during his reign.