Note 66 — Chapter IX · THE SPREAD OF ISLAM IN INDIA.
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That these conversions were in the main voluntary, may be judged from the toleration that the Arabs, after the first violence of their onslaught, showed towards their idolatrous subjects. The people of Brahmanābād, for example, whose city had been taken by storm, were allowed to repair their temple, which was a means of livelihood to the Brahmans, and nobody was to be forbidden or prevented from following his own religion,66 and generally, where submission was made, quarter was readily given, and the people were permitted the exercise of their own creeds and laws.