Indian Muslims: Who Are They c6.s5.3

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His successor Ahmad Vali (1422-36), marched through Vijayanagar kingdom, slaughtering men and enslaving women and children.⁴³ The captives were made Musalmans.⁴⁴ Sultan Alauddin (1436-58) collected a thousand women in his harem. When it is noted that intermittent warfare between the Bahmani and Vijayanagar kingdoms continued for more than a century and a half, the story of enslavement, conversions, and harems of kings and nobles need not be carried on. Even ordinary soldiers used to get many slaves, and at the end of the battle of Talikot (1565), large number of captives consigned to slavery, enriched the whole of the Muslim armies, for the troops were permitted to retain the whole of the plunder⁴⁵ Capture of women and children in wars with Telingana and southern chieftaincies too added to Muslim population.