Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c9.24

c9.24

But the description provides the scenario in which the brave and the strong, the elite and the plebeian, were made captives and their spirit broken. That is how Timur was enabled to massacre in one day about 100,000 of captives he had taken prisoner on his march to Delhi. They had been distributed among his officers and kept tied and shackled. That is how Maulana Nasiruddin Umar, a man of learning in Timurs camp, slew with his own sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives. If the prisoners could break their bonds, such a carnage could not have been possible. Prisoners were often brought to Timurs presence with hands bound to their necks.⁶² Jahangir (1605-27) also writes that prisoners were conducted to my presence yoked together.⁶³ Most of them were kept yoked together even when they were sent out to be sold in foreign lands or markets in India.