Hindus beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade Author(s): Scott C. Levi Source: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 2002), pp. 277-288
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Although the Mughal emperor Akbar attempted to prohibit the practice of enslaving conquered Hindus, his efforts were only temporarily successful.43 According to one early seventeenth-century account, 'Abd Allah Khan Firuz Jang, an Uzbek noble at the Mughal court during the 1620s and 1630s, was appointed to the position of governor of the regions of Kalpi and Kher and, in the process of subjugating the local rebels, "beheaded the leaders and enslaved their women, daughters and children, who were more than 2 lacks [200,000] in number".

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What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Although the Mughal emperor Akbar attempted to prohibit the practice of enslaving conquered Hindus, his efforts were only temporarily successful.43 According to one early seventeenth-century account, 'Abd Allah Khan Firuz Jang, an Uzbek noble at the Mughal court during the 1620s and 1630s, was appointed to the position of governor of the regions of Kalpi and Kher and, in the process of subjugating the local rebels, "beheaded the leaders and enslaved their women, daughters and children, who were more than 2 lacks [200,000] in number"." in the context of "Hindus beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade Author(s): Scott C. Levi Source: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Nov., 2002), pp. 277-288" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Akbar

Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar, popularly known as Akbar I (IPA: əkbər, literally "the great"; 15 October 1542– 27 October 1605), and later Akbar the Great (Urdu: Akbar-e-Azam; literally "Great the Great"), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India.