Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India (A.D. 1000-1800) (An Old and Rare Book)

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THE influence of medieval Indian Muslims on Indian social order was active and palpable. And yet its dimension was not the same all through the medieval age ranging say, between A.D. 1000 and 1800. In the beginning Muslims were few in numbers, indeed very few. Obviously the quantum of their impact at that stage could have been only limited. It grew as their numbers grow.

On the other hand, while the appearance of Muslims in India gave the Hindu civilisation a big jolt, its influence on Indian society continued to remain ever strong In any society people have to coexist, ideas are exchanged, and different sections of people influence one another's life and thought So happened in medieval India too. Here the Muslims and Hindus clashed and coexisted; their mutual relations passed through stresses and strains, but they also influenced each other in social and cultural spheres, Side by side, all through the centuries of the Middle Ages the Muslim numbers went on rising. Increase in population is not merely a growth in numbers and, as W E Moore points out, it changes not only the size of social systems but also the complexity and interrelationships or organizational forms within systems, usually with accompanying strains"

These ideas led me to the conclusion that in any study of medieval history and society our one task should be to try to estimate how many Muslims and non-Muslims there were and to determine the proportion of Muslims in the overall population of India Then the picture of Muslims living and working with the majority of non-Muslims would become still more clear For. "one fact is patently clear The vast majority of Muslims in India (and Pakistan) are converts from indigenous elements, and the two nation theory' has no historical basis. "

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