Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c5.s2.1

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For the study of medieval Indian demography the itineraries of foreign visitors is of great importance. They came to India as travellers, traders, people in search of employment and some even as embassadors. Some like Wassaf and Shihabuddin Ahmad did not visit India but have given reliable account of affairs here on the basis of information supplied by others; some like Alberuni, Ibn Battuta and Abdur Razzaq, stayed here for years and have left detailed notices about famines, pestilences, wars etc. Still more important are their comments about places or regions sparsely or thickly populated.