The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c8.s4.136
The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c8.s4.136
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¹¹⁴ At times there were tragically comic occasions in this situation. Sher Shah Suri sent an embassy to Shah Tahmasp requesting the extradition of Humayun, but the Suri envoys ears and nose were out off by the order of the Shah and as a reprisal several Persians were mutilated in India (Aziz Ahmad, *Studies*, p.26, quoting Riazul Islam, *The Relations between the Mughal Emperors of India and the Safavid Shahs of Iran*, Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge, 1957).