"The Mahomniedans are encouraged and exhorted to destroy all the emblems of idolatry they may see in Sinde. The degraded and unfortunate follower of Brahma, is denied the free exercise of his religion ; the tom-tom is seldom heard, being only beat when permission is granted ; and although there are a few temples without images at Hyderabad, the sound of music never echoes from their walls. It is in the power of any "true believers, by declaring that a Hindoo has repeated a verse from the Koran, or the words Mahommed the Prophet, to procure his immediate circumcision. This is the most common, and, by the persecuted class themselves, considered the most cruel of all their calamities ; while, as it is resorted to on the slightest pretence, and always performed with a mockery of its being for the eternal happiness of the sufferer, mental agony is made to add its bitterness to bodily infliction."
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James Burnes (surgeon), Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde. Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde [https://archive.org/stream/anarrativeavisi00burngoog/anarrativeavisi00burngoog_djvu.txt (also quoted in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.)
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