Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c23.16

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⁶ It is exceedingly significant that Megasthenes in the ancient times and Nicolo Conti in the fifteenth century are impressed by the fact that Indians are comparatively free from diseases. What Conti writes is interesting. He says that "pestilence is unknown among the Indians; neither are they exposed to those diseases which carry off the population in our countries: *the consequence is that the number of these people exceeds belief....*" *Major, India in the Fifteenth Century*, op. cit. (VI, n. 7), p. 32.