1. Dressed in rags and barefoot, a Muslim peasant presents the appearance of a starving beggar...Most are landless laborers, working as serfs for absentee landlords...

Dressed in rags and barefoot, a Muslim peasant presents the appearance of a starved beggar...Most are landless laborers, working as serfs for absentee landlords. « La pauvreté de la majorité est effroyable.

2. Buddhist monasteries were also engaged in the economy, since their land property and serfs gave them enough revenues to set up mills, oil presses, and other enterprises.

Les monastères sont également engagés dans l'économie puisque leurs terres et leurs serfs leur procurent assez de revenus pour approvisionner les moulins, presses à huile et autres entreprises,,,.