“It became a fashion to raid a village or group of villages without any obvious justification, and carry off the inhabitants as slaves.”

— William Harrison Moreland

W.H. Moreland, India at the Death of Akbar, also quoted in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 6

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“At Quincy's moat the squandering village ends,
And there in the almshouse dwell the dearest friends
Of all the village, two old dames that cling
As close as any trueloves in the spring.”

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“A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.”

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“The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village.”

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“I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.”

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Context: I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

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“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.”

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“All the above names are Hindu, and ordinarily these …are Hindus by race, who had been carried off in infancy from various villages or the houses of different rebel Hindu princes. In spite of their Hindu names, they are however, Mahomedans.”

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“What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….”

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