Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c18.56
Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c18.56
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⁴² This policy of enslavement and conversion was also followed by others of smaller note. Sidi Yaqut of Janjira once took a Maratha fort after granting quarter to the garrison. Seven hundred persons came out. Notwithstanding his word, "he made the children and pretty women slaves, and forcibly converted them to Islam...but the men he put to death." Khafi Khan, *op. cit.* (I, n. 3), II, p. 228.