Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c18.85

c18.85

⁶³ *C.H.I.*, IV, *op. cit.* (VI, n. 97) p. 335. Some people would have been converted during the invasions of Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali. Muhammad Aslam in his *Farhat-un-Nazirin* says that during the Third Battle of Panipat (1761) about 90,000 persons, "male and female, were taken prisoner and obtained eternal happiness by embracing the Muhammadan faith", *op. cit.* (II. n. 19), p. 171. But not only is he not supported by any other contemporary historian, the very incidents of the war militate against such large-scale conversions.