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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4503804, member: 93416&quot;]Dunno – maybe some more info on Alauddin might be relevant?</p><p><br /></p><p>Alauddin was apparently completely without religious or racial prejudice - which would be viewed as weird by many at that the time. Also he saw that to keep a vast army in the field, he had to boost productivity, and to do that he had to give the Hindu peasant a fair deal in cash terms for his work. Which he did – and he saw also this would greatly annoy the Moslem aristocracy – as it would hit them in the pocket. So early on he put the entire Moslem Aristocracy under a kind of house arrest – none were allowed to meet up. As if sedition was a virus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course eventually a bunch of guys - about 300 I think – did conspire to kill him. He was forewarned by spies and killed them all. And all their wives. And all their children. A few thousand probably. So lets coldly put that on the scales and see what is on the other side.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many lives did he save amongst labouring Hindu classes – from child mortality etc etc? Surely tens of thousands. How many lives did he save in total from the Mongols. Surely hundreds of thousands. Did some favour him for it – yes. Did some hate him – yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I alone in finding it kind of strange how so much of Roman history resembles modern TV soaps? Like say “Coronation Street” or “Dallas”?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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