Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c22.s4.1

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c22.s4.1

Political exigencies as well as humanism and religious cosmopolitanism, impelled Akbar to undertake measures which also put a brake on the rise of Muslim numbers through conversion. Briefly stated '"the main lines of his policy, (were) directed to obliterating all difference in treatment between Muslims and Hindus".²⁹ This in itself discouraged conversions to Islam.

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