Why Jizya (or Kharaj) is hated by Hindus!!

Families who could not pay the crushing jizya or poll-tax were obliged to hand over their children and to "deduct" the value of the children as slaves from the jizya.

For more than 300 years, Christians suffered the humiliation not often discussed: a process known as "devshirme," introduced by Ottoman Sultan Orkhan (1326-1359). It consisted of a periodic taking of a fifth of all Christian children in conquered territories. Converted to Islam, many of these children usually between the ages of fourteen and twenty, were trained to be janissaries or infantrymen. These periodic abductions eventually became an annual occurrence. Children were taken from among the Greek aristocracy and from Serbs, Bulgarians, Armenians, and Albanians, and often from among the children of priests.

Another way of supplying the caliphs with slaves, required on a fixed date in the year, all the fathers (unbelievers) were ordered to appear with their children in the public square of of the village. The recruiting agents chose the most sturdy and handsome children in the presence of a Muslim judge. Any father who shirked his duty to provide children was severely punished.

This system was open to all kinds of abuse. The recruiting agents often took more that the prescribed number of children and sold the "surplus" children back to their parents. Those parents unable to buy back their own children had to accept the children being sold as slaves. This system was abolished in 1656, however a parallel system in which young children between the ages of six and ten were taken to be trained in the seraglio of the sultan, continued into the 19th century. The number of children taken each year has been estimated as great as 8,000 but most probably an average of 1,000 children.