In the texts of court historians of the Delhi Sultanate, and later the Mughal Empire, cow slaughter taboo in India is mentioned, as well as cow slaughter as a means of political message, desecration, as well as its prohibition by Sultans and Muslim Emperors as a means of accommodation of public sentiments in the Indian subcontinent. In 1756--57, in what was his fourth invasion of India, the founder of the Durrani Empire, Ahmad Sh*h Durr*n* sacked Delhi and plundered Agra, Mathura, and Vrndavana.
Muslim Emperors
Ahmad Sh*h Durr*n*