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William Harrison Moreland Quotes

1868–1938 Northern Ireland

William Harrison Moreland CSI CIE (13 July 1868 – 28 September 1938) was a British civil servant who served in the Indian Civil Service and wrote several books on the economic history of India based on Mughal, Dutch, and Portuguese sources.

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It became a fashion to raid a village or group of villages without any obvious justification, and carry off the inhabitants as slaves.

India at the Death of Akbar, also quoted in Lal, K. S (1994)

This forced Akbar to reissue the ban on enslavement in 1576. In his reign, witnessed della Valle, ‘servant and slaves were so numerous and cheap that ‘everybody, even of mean fortune, keeps a great family, and is splendidly attended.’’

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