Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s4.t6.13

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¹ Compare Gupta, Aspects of Bengali society, J.D.L., 170, about the new reformist outlook in Bengal. It was laid down that if a Brahman was forcibly converted to Islam, he may be taken back into the bosom of the Hindu society by performing appropriate expiatory ceremonies, for, as the reformers discovered, ‘the fire of Brahmanical spirit burns in a Brahman up to six generations’.