Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s1.45

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c5.s1.45

² Compare B., 51; for this formulation : Balban believed he could conquer and consolidate a new territory with 1,00,000 combatants and 12,000 persons willing to settle down and colonize ; compare Tod, II, 594 for a similar view of Rajputs : ‘with two thousand men you may eat *khichri* ; with one thousand *dal-bhat* ; with 5 hundred *juti* (the shoe) *i.e.*, indelible disgrace’.

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