Musalman
Noun
Meaning
Musalman (plural Musalmans or Musalmen)
Archaic form of Mussulman.
Phrases with the word
Examples
Then our Musalman brothers, the Pathans, would come out as a swarm of locusts from their mountain valleys, and make rivers of blood to flow from their frontier in the north to the extreme end of Bengal.
My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
When in 1716 Banda Bahadur with his 740 followers was given by Farrukh Siyar the choice between Islam and death, they all died to a man rather than become Musalman.
According to Qazvini, Shahjahan's orders in this regard were that captives were not to be sold to Hindus as slaves, and under Muslim customers they could only become Musalman.
Amir Khusrau writes that under Jalauddin Khalji (1290-96), after a battle, "whatever live Hindu fell into the hands of the victorious king was pounded to bits under the feet of the elephants. The Musalman captives had their lives spared.”.