Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c7.15

c7.15

And now our second question - what did the victors do with slaves captured in large crowds? In the days of the early invaders like Muhammad bin Qasim and Mahmud Ghaznavi, they were mostly sold in the Slave Markets that had come up throughout the Muslim dominated towns and cities. Lot of profit was made by selling slaves in foreign lands. Isami gives the correct position. Muhammad Nazim in an article has translated relevant lines of Isamis metrical composition.²² He (Mahmud) scattered the army of the Hindus in one attack and took Rai Jaipal prisoner. He carried him to the distant part of his kingdom of Ghazni and delivered him to an agent of the *Slave Market* (*dalal-i-bazar*). I heard that at the command of the king (Mahmud), the *Brokers of the Market*, (*maqiman-i-bazar* in the original) sold Jaipal as a slave for 80 Dinars and deposited the money realised by the sale in the Treasury.²³