| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1871 - 670 pages
...exempt from the j'isya, or poll-tax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large, and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and...from the jizya, and were favoured with presents and honours. Through God's mercy the lands and property of his servants have been safe and secure, protected... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1871 - 754 pages
...exempt from the jisya, or poll-tax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large, and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and...from the jizya, and were favoured with presents and honours. Through God's mercy the lands and property of his servants have been safe and secure, protected... | |
| Archaeological Survey of India - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1885 - 258 pages
...should be exempt from the Jezia, or poll tax. Information ,of this came to the ears of the people, and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves and were...and, adopting the faith, were exonerated from the Jezia} and were favoured with presents and honours" Coupling this statement, made by Firoz Shah himself,... | |
| Sir Alexander Cunningham - India - 1885 - 264 pages
...ears of the people, and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves and were admitted to the honourof Islam. Thus they came forward day by day from every...and, adopting the faith, were exonerated from the Jezta, and were favoured with presents and honours." Coupling this statement, made by Firoz Shah himself,... | |
| Sir Thomas Walker Arnold - Islam - 1896 - 416 pages
...exempt from the jizyah, or poll tax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and...and, adopting the faith, were exonerated from the jizyah, and were favoured with presents and honours." s As the Muhammadan power became consolidated,... | |
| Elwood Morris Wherry - Christianity and other religions - 1907 - 246 pages
...exempt from the Jizyah or polltax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and...and, adopting the faith, were exonerated from the Jizyah, and were favoured with presents and honours." 18 These facts will suffice to show how this... | |
| Elwood Morris Wherry, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, C. G. Mylrea - Islam - 1911 - 334 pages
...exempt from the Jizya or poll-tax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and...from the Jizya, and were favoured with presents and honours." But it was not the tax that did so much injury as the way in which it was imposed and collected.... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1916 - 394 pages
...of the prophet by promising exemption from the poll-tax (jizya), in consequence of which promise ' great numbers of Hindus presented themselves and were admitted to the honour of Islam '. ; It is thus clear that he regarded himself as the sultan of the Muslim minority, not as the impartial... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...exempt from the jizya or poll-tax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large, and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and...by day from every quarter, and, adopting the faith, Ajaital. .were exonerated from' the jizya, and were favoured with presents and honours.' Such was the... | |
| Swami Sraddhananda - Christian converts from Hinduism - 1926 - 164 pages
...exempt from the Jaziah or poll tax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and...were admitted to the honour of Islam. Thus they came forword day by day from every quarter, and, adopting the faith, wore exonerated from the Jiziah and... | |
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