Indian Muslims: Who Are They c7.105

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c7.105

⁷⁴ Maharaja Ajit Singh took back the Maharani, his daughter who had been married to Farrukh Siyar, with all her Jewels he made her throw off her Musalman dress, dismissed her Muhammadan attendants and sent her to her native country In the reign of no former Emperor had any Raja been so presumptuous as to take his daughter after she had been married to a king and admitted to the honour of Islam. Khafi Khan, *op. cit.*, p.483. Probably this is not an isolated case of reconversion to Hinduism.

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