Indian Muslims: Who Are They c7.6

c7.6

During the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Jahangir, by and large, continued to follow Akbars policy of *sulehkul*. Perhaps a few cases of forcible conversions might have been brought to his notice so as to prompt him to issue, in the sixth year of his reign, a royal order prohibiting the provincial governors from converting any one forcibly to Islam.¹⁵ Jahangir also discouraged making of eunuchs in Bengal for being presented to the court¹⁶ (for service in the Mughal harem and ultimately becoming Muhammadans). But he was not against peaceful encouragement to conversions.¹⁷ Some prisoners were also offered pardon if they turned Musalman.¹⁸