09-19-2010, 05:35 PM
[quote name='devagiri' date='17 September 2010 - 05:36 PM' timestamp='1284724705' post='108360']
Ishwaji,excellent series of articles by you.The ones on Indian architecture stolen by the islmaic vandals were great.Do you run a blog as well?
one question I had: who are the "parwaris" mentioned in muslin records like Barani etc.They refer to slaves taken from Gujarat,but was it a specific catergory like parmars?
also what are "paiks"? , they seem to be some sort of hindu soldiers in the moslems service.again a term i came across in the muslim chronicles.
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Dear Devagiri,
Thank you. I do not run blogs. Whatever sparetime and breath (or health) I have, I spent reading and sometimes writing on the medieval period. Though my favourite period used to be the ancient time, the necessity of exposing a lot of biased data and clear untruths of the medival time, having still its bearings on modern day, stimulated me to quickly launch the recent writings here. I Hope to the stimulation of others to explore and expose more. When the time is ripe for more general acceptance, at least this part of the job could have been done in advance.
Parwaris are called 'low cast' in sources. But they might be (partly or totally) Islamized Parmars. I do not know the definite answer to this.
Paiks seem to point to a pedestrian function (paaii = feet), thus infantry.
Ishwaji,excellent series of articles by you.The ones on Indian architecture stolen by the islmaic vandals were great.Do you run a blog as well?
one question I had: who are the "parwaris" mentioned in muslin records like Barani etc.They refer to slaves taken from Gujarat,but was it a specific catergory like parmars?
also what are "paiks"? , they seem to be some sort of hindu soldiers in the moslems service.again a term i came across in the muslim chronicles.
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Dear Devagiri,
Thank you. I do not run blogs. Whatever sparetime and breath (or health) I have, I spent reading and sometimes writing on the medieval period. Though my favourite period used to be the ancient time, the necessity of exposing a lot of biased data and clear untruths of the medival time, having still its bearings on modern day, stimulated me to quickly launch the recent writings here. I Hope to the stimulation of others to explore and expose more. When the time is ripe for more general acceptance, at least this part of the job could have been done in advance.
Parwaris are called 'low cast' in sources. But they might be (partly or totally) Islamized Parmars. I do not know the definite answer to this.
Paiks seem to point to a pedestrian function (paaii = feet), thus infantry.