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Slavery in India during the Delhi Sultanate

Delhi Sultanate (12th to 16th century AD) [ edit ] See also:  Turkish slaves in the Delhi Sultanate During the  Delhi Sultanate  period (1206–1555), references to the abundant availability of low-priced Indian slaves abound. [1] [60]  Many of these Indian slaves were used by Muslim nobility in the subcontinent, but others were exported to satisfy the demand in international markets. The revenue system of the Delhi Sultanate produced a considerable proportion of the Indian slave population as these rulers, and their subordinate shiqadars, ordered their armies to abduct large numbers of locals as a means of extracting revenue. [61] [62]  While those communities that were loyal to the Sultan and regularly paid their taxes were often excused from this practice, taxes were commonly extracted from other, less loyal groups in the form of slaves. Thus, according to Barani, the  Shamsi  "slave-king"  Balban  (r. 1266–87) ordered his shiqadars in  Awadh  to enslave those people

Slavery in Iran under the achaemenids

A  History of slavery  in  Iran  (Persia) during various  ancient ,  medieval  and  modern  periods is sparsely cataloged. commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Record_of_the_sale_of_three_branded_slaves,_Achaemenid_Dynasty,_Iran,_c._455_BC_-_Royal_Ontario_Museum_-_DSC09610.JPG Under the Achaemenids Edit In general, mass slavery as a whole has never been practiced by Persians, and in many cases the situation and lives of semi-slaves (prisoners of war) were, in fact, better than those of the commoner. [1] Slavery was an existing institution in  Egypt ,  Media  and  Babylonia  before the rise of the Achaemenid empire. On the whole, in the  Achaemenid  empire, there was only small number of slaves in relation to the number of free persons and moreover the word used to call a slave was utilized also to express general dependence. [2] Usually, captives were prisoners of war that were recruited from those that rebelled against Achaemenid rule. [3] Modern historians handle th

Impact of African slave trade