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“ ’Alau’d-din at this time held the territory of Karra, and with the permission of the Sultan he marched to Bhailsan (Bhilsa). He captured some bronze idols which the Hindus worshipped and sent them on carts with a variety of rich booty as presents to the Sultan. The idols were laid before the Badaun gate for true believers to tread upon…”

— Ziauddin Barani

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Kingship (or government) is a combination of terror, strictness and kindness, and it is only maintained by (resorting to) these contradictory principles.

“The low-born, who have been enrolled for practising the baser arts and the meaner professions, are capable only of vices…”

The den of the robbers was thus converted into a guard-house, and Musulmans and guardians of the way took the place of highway robbers.

‘Kingship is the army and the army is the kingship,’ wrote Barani, implying the central importance of a powerful army in the plunderous Muslim rule and conquest.

[Slaves, for instance, made good soldiers but] “they are of one group and one mind and there can be no permanent security against their revolt.”

Fatawa-i-Jahandari, pp.25-26. quoted from Lal, K. S (1992)

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