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Peter Hardy Quotes

1922–2013 England

Peter Hardy (1922-2013) was a lecturer, and later reader, at the School of Oriental and African Studies from 1947 to 1983. A specialist in the history of Islam, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal India, he had particular expertise in Indo-Persian historiography.

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To attempt to penetrate the field of the study of the growth of the Muslim population in South Asia is to attempt to penetrate a political minefield.

In 1920–2 Abdul Kalam Azad and the Jamiyat were advocating the mental partition of India.

The very few references, over a period of 500 or 600 years, in the religious literature to "conversions" suggest in their contexts and perhaps in their very rarity, that the Muslim religious did not postulate the quality and strength of man's response in South Asia to the call of Islam to be proportionate to the numbers of those calling themselves, or called by others, Muslims.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Hardy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.