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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.

— Peter Hardy

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