"The Census of India Report of 1901 says that “the tyrannical Murshid Kuli Khan enforced a law that any Amal, or Zamindar, failing to pay the revenue that was due… should, with his wife and children, be compelled to become Muhammadans”, but the practice was much older as vouched by the Banshasmriti."
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Census of India Report, 1901, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.
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