Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c23.4
Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c23.4
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Similar was the position in earlier centuries. Muhammad Sharif Hanafi, the author of *Majalis-us-Salatin*, writing in early seventeenth century (A.D. 1628), says "that the whole country of Hindustan... is known to form one-fourth of the inhabited world, and reckoned as largest of all the countries."² Hanafi's information or impression was not wide off the actual position.