Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c4.s2.t5.5

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As to the plan of the work, I have included the study of a number of political and economic factors which appear to me helpful in giving a proper perspective of social developments in Hindustan. In dealing with economic conditions, my object is only to give some economic data for a better appreciation of social life.¹ As regards the original texts, I have made a free rather than a literal translation; in some cases I have contented myself only with a summary of a longer passage. Abbreviations are used to indicate most of the original and published texts. These are noted against the text in the bibliography. Two appendices are added at the close of the thesis for a better appreciation of some general data, as the measurements of time and space, the coins, etc., and for the chronology of the reigns of the Sultans of Delhi.