I am reading Jonathan Scott's book.
Ferishta's History of Dekkan from The First Mahummedan Conquests, with A Continuation from other Native Writers, of The Events in That Part of India, to the Reduction of the last Monarchs by the Emperor Aulumgeer Aurungzebe, also The Regins of his Successors in the Empire of Hindoostan to the Present Day, and The History of Bengal from the Accession of Aliverdee Khan to The Year 1780.
The book covers about 450 years, and there are wars all over the place. Not only between two rulers, but most of the other rulers are also fighting.
The armise are from about 15,000 to 80,000 horse and foot soldiers sometimes more, plus merchants, wifes, children, water bearers, cooks and, and, and.
These wars have been going on before the book was written, and after it was finished.
One of the Sultans in Deccan once got offended at something a Hindu ruler said or did, and said he would kill 100,000 Hindus, and so he did.
What did they do with thousands of dead people Muslims and Hindus? To burry them would have been impossible, to leave them to rot would hardly have been an option, so they would have had to burn them, but from where did they get all the wood it would have taken?
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