Drawing from the original sources, this book establishes that the accession of Sultans of Delhi heralded a new epoch in the history of India. Territorial conquest was easy enough. The compulsive need of the day was the assimilation of the rootless immigrants in the Indian ethos. Though complex, the objective was achieved by various devices, for instance, by mobilising the services of the network of divines dispersed all the uprooted aliens with the indigenous ...
