Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c5.21

c5.21

Alexander Gardner subsequently found a Muslim fruit merchant at Multan who was proved by his own ledger to have exchanged a female slave girl for three ponies and seven long-haired, red-eyed cats, all of which he disposed of, no doubt to advantage, to the English gentlemen at this station.⁴ Small wonder that the Islamic system of slavery was revolting to the Hindu psyche because it was alien to Hindu Dharma and ideologically abhorrent to it.