Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c14.30

c14.30

Nikitins statement that in his time there was a trade in Black people in Bidar.⁶⁴ But the trade was carried on by Muslims and not Hindus, for Moreland adds that in 1643, a Nayak, or chief, rejected a Dutch request for leave to buy up to 1000 slaves yearly on the ground that the sale of human being was not only a scandal but a sin.⁶⁵ All accounts point to the fact that Hindus, otherwise great traders and merchants throughout Indias history, did not indulge in slave trade.