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

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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