Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s4.t4.1

c5.s4.t4.1

In our enumeration of Muslim social classes, we might conveniently treat here the important class of domestics and slaves who were a familiar feature of every respectable Muslim home, and as has been pointed out above, incidentally added to the growing Muslim population of Hindustan.⁴ The life of a Muslim nobleman was so much divided between war (razm) and pleasures (bazm) that he hardly found any time to attend to his personal and domestic work. In course of time the code of social behaviour began to view domestic work as unworthy of a gentleman's dignity and honour.