Indian Muslims: Who Are They c7.115

c7.115

⁸³ Robert Ormes estimates are low both for the Muslim population as well as for the total population of India. His assessment of the Hindu-Muslim proportion also does not seem to be correct. What he writes is this: From these origins time has formed in India a nation of near ten million of Mohamdans whom the Europeans call Moor, to them under the authority of the Great Mogul, the greatest part of Hindustan is now subject; but although the reigning nation, they are outnumbered by the Indians ten to one. Robert Orme, *A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan*, 3 vols. 4th ed. (London, 1803), I, p.24.