Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s2.t2.24

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¹ Compare Salzmann, 75, for an estimate of England; also *ibid.*, 241-2, for the sermon of Berthold of Ratisbon, on the dishonest ways of shopkeepers; compare I.K., I, 174; also Kabir, Shah, 162; especially the opinion and observations of Barani who warmly supports the measures of Sultan Ala-ud-din Khalji and in a description of the commercial classes, by no means the strongest, calls them ‘the biggest liars and the meanest of the seventy-two races’. *Vide* B., 316-7, 343.