Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c17.s7.6

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Thus the rise of Muslim population through conversions was rather rapid in the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth century. But proselytization to Islam received some check in the sixteenth century due to a number of factors. One was the work of the Bhakta religious reformers of the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries. The aim of these reformers may not have been to stop conversions to Islam or to reconvert people to Hinduism. but as will be seen at a later stage, their message and work did help check conversions to Islam.