Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c20.40

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c20.40

(III.) In the third picture is represented the story of Ḥaqīqat Rāi of Lahore, about two hundred years old. Ḥaqīqat Rāi was a Hindu student in the school of a bigoted Maulawī. In the illustration, he is undergoing a severe punishment amounting almost to torture for his suspected insult to the Muhammadan religion.

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