The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c11.s8.8

c11.s8.8

Ibn Battuta says: When they have reaped the autumn harvest, they sow spring grains in the same soil in which autumn grains had been sown, for their country is excellent and the soil is fertile. As for rice they sow it three times a year.. (Mahdi Husain, trs., p.19). Shams Siraj Afif writing about the prosperity of Orissa at the time of Firoz Tughlaqs invasion says: The country of Jajnagar was in a very flourishing state, and the abundance of corn and fruit supplied the wants of the army the numbers of animals of every kind were so great that no one cared to take them Sheep were found in such countless numbers (Afif, Persian text, pp.165-66. Also pp. 180, 295).