Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c21.36

c21.36

Thus it were the peculiar political, religious, but more especially social conditions of Bengal that exposed its people to Muslim proselytization. Had the common, poor, unsophisticated sections of the lower classes been left to themselves, they might have remained contented with their local forms of devotion and folk culture. But Muslim rulers, soldiers, and Sufi Mashaikh left the high and the low hardly any choice in the matter. The lower classes of course were more vulnerable.