Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s2.t1.12

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³ The extreme indulgence of the Hindu Rajas of the South and the thousands of their wives and slaves, are dealt with in the pages of almost all foreign travellers who visited the Deccan. For Hindu examples in Hindustan: compare the famous case of the Rajput Minister of Malwa who had 2,000 women including Muslim women also—C.H.I., III, 368. Compare the amusing instance of the Raja of Champanir who was so busy amusing himself with *Patars* that he did not realize that Afghan invaders had occupied the town—W.M., 39. For Muslim monarchs hardly any illustrations are required. Compare, however, the extreme indulgence of Mu'izz-ud-din Kaiqubad in all kinds of sexual indulgence and the magnanimous forgiveness of similar sins on the part of his subjects; in fact he thought that if he enjoyed and let others do the same, it was a source of glory in this world and of paradise in the next—B., 99. Consider also—W.M., 81, the wailings of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din Khalji of Malwa who maintained a whole department for female supply but died in the grief that he never met a woman exactly to his liking.