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“What is our defence of the faith,” cried Sultan Jalaluddin Khalji, “that we suffer these Hindus, who are the greatest enemies of God and of the religion of Mustafa, to live in comfort and do not flow streams of their blood.”

— 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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