Under the Mughals, the Ulama, occupied a prestigious position as guardians, transmitters and interpreters of Islam an Islamic Law. The were provided imperial patronage in the form of subsistence grants, with a few of them finding their way to religious offices. The were kept in good humor and yet, at no stage, were they given any political power by the Mughals. The Indianmedieval rulers were apparently wiser than that of many in the modern Islamic States, ...
