The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c10.112

The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehlī c10.112

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c10.112

¹ Siyāsat-nāmah, pp. 68, 69. I.B (ii. p. 66) says, "It is customary among the monarchs of India that they keep a slave as a spy with every noble; similarly there are slave girls in every noble's household who pass on the information to the sweepers. They, in their turn, report everything to a superior official."

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تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic