Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.197

c10.197

An important fact should be noticed before we leave 'Alāuddīn's reign. Now that more than a century had elapsed since Muḥammad Ghūrī's arrival in India, there had already begun a racial intermixture, which was no doubt small, and a linguistic mingling and intercourse between the Hindus and the Muhammadans, brought about by the pressure of natural laws. The marriage of Dewal Devī, the daughter of the Rājā of Anhilpūr with prince Khiẓr Khān, the eldest son of Sulṭān 'Alāuddīn, which inspired a poem of Amīr Khusrau, shows that there had already been a breach in the social partition separating the Hindus from the Muhammadans; and it is superfluous to point out that linguistic intermingling had already commenced.