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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.’’

— William Harrison Moreland

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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)

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