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The term foreigner during the medieval period was meant for a person who came from another village or a town.

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The above statement is true.
Writing history is not easy, and historians must be cautious while noting down the terms mentioned in various inscriptions and manuscripts because the meanings of the terms during the ancient period might differ from the meanings of the same terms used at present. For example, the term foreigner was meant for a person from another village or a town during the medieval period. And it is not like someone who is not an Indian in the case of India. So it meant any stranger who appeared in a particular village and was not part of that society.

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