Indian Muslims: Who Are They c7.109

c7.109

Some people would have been converted during the invasions of Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali. Muhammad Aslam in his *Farhat-un-Nazirin* says that during the Third Battle of Panipat (1761) about 90, 000 persons, male and female, were taken prisoner and obtained eternal happiness by embracing the Muhammadan faith, *op. cit.*, p.171 But not only is he not supported by any other contemporary historians, the very incidents of the war militate against such large-scale conversions.