Kaeshour is the twitter persona of a Kashmiri Pandit person living in London. He is knowledgeable in mathematics (appears to be a Quant), Sankskit, Kashmiri language. He usually deletes his tweets after a few days, so I try to capture interesting threads here.
Some twitter threads by kaeshour
On Mughals:
By and large, the enslavement of Hindus and their exportation to Central Asia continued unhindered throughout the Mughal period. Although the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) attempted to prohibit the practice of enslaving conquered Hindus, his efforts were only temporarily successful.
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 Kali 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”. 44 Whether agriculturalists or pastoralists, following their enslavement many of these individuals were sent in large numbers to markets beyond India’s northwest frontier, far …
Unfortunately, there is no means by which to determine precisely how abundant Indian slaves were in early modern Central Asia. It is, however, possible to establish a rough estimate of the proportion of slaves of Indian origin in relation to those of other regions, at least in terms of the slave population of late sixteenth-century Samargand. A survey of seventy-seven letters regarding the manumission or sale of slaves in the Majmu’a-i-watha’ig reveals that slaves of Indian origin (hindi al-äsl) accounted for over 58 per cent of those whose region of origin is mentioned.4 It must be emphasized that the Majmü’a-i-wathaig provides a relatively small, restricted sample. It would be irresponsible to suggest that, based on the information elicited from this source, §8 per cent of the population of slaves in all of Central Asia was of Indian origin. However, the predominance of Indian slaves in the early …
via; Apr 28, 2024.