“Any study of the population of the precensus times can be based only on estimates, and estimates by their very nature tend to be tentative.”

—  K. S. Lal , book Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India

Preface (p. vi).
Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India (1973)

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