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Compare and contrast the position of Hindu and Muslim women in 13th and 14th century India.

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  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries — the era of the Delhi Sultanate alongside surviving regional Hindu kingdoms in Rajasthan, the Deccan, and the south — do not permit a clean Hindu-Muslim binary when it comes to the position of women.

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