Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c4.s2.t5.3

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However, though Muslim sources cannot perhaps be accused of a bias, other limitations are equally serious. The social content of Muslim histories is meagre. Life is unattractive for them outside court and cities, or a few religious and literary circles. They are not, as a rule, directly interested in knowing about the Hindu society, or even the life of the lower classes of Muslims who were not very different from the Hindu masses. This, obviously, is an insufficient basis for the study of Hindu society. Unfortunately, the records of Rajputana, the solitary home of Hindu culture and polity, have not yet been worked out. The brilliant but old work of James Tod still remains the main source of our information. We hope that a critical study of Rajput records and other sources of information will some day add to our knowledge of the contemporary Hindu society.