Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s4.t2.49

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¹ Compare B., 505. Compare, that the list of persons he recruited for the administration consists of all classes of low-born persons—musicians, brewers, dancers, barbers, cooks, vegetable sellers, weavers, gardeners petty shop-keepers, slaves and ‘all sorts of low scum (bad-asls)’. Compare, also, that some Hindu names that appear in the list—like Nanka, Lodha, Pira, Kishen—cannot be mistaken. Compare for a few distinguished Indians : ‘Imad-ul-mulk the muster-master of Sultan Balban (vide B. (M.S.) 61); ‘Ain-ul-mulk the governor of Muhammad Tughluq in Kara. All foreigners (khurasanis) were mortally afraid of the latter when he rebelled ‘because he was an Indian who resented the domination of the foreigners’ (vide K.R. II, 64).