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  2. Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries, establishing the Indo-Muslim period. [1] [2] Earlier Muslim conquests in the subcontinent include the invasions which started in the northwestern subcontinent (modern-day Pakistan), especially the Umayyad campaigns during the 8th century.

  3. Saffarid conquest [1] 880-900 Muslim Sijistan: Amr ibn Layth, Kamaluka Shahi Frequent raids by Muslims. [1] 903-905 Hindu Kabul region Shahi dynasty Disintegration of Saffarids allows major Hindu military achievements. [1] 905-915 Hindu Multan region Mahipala Pratihara: Series of major but unsuccessful Hindu sieges of Multan. [1] 940-950 Hindu ...

  4. Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent or Indo-Muslim period [1] is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military command of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim. [2] It began in the Indian subcontinent in the course of a gradual conquest.

  5. Hindu–Islamic relations - Wikipedia

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    For example, the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam, wrote many Islamic devotional songs for mainstream Bengali folk music. [24] He also explored Hindu devotional music by composing Shyama Sangeet, Durga Vandana, Sarswati Vandana, bhajans and kirtans, often merging Islamic and Hindu values. Nazrul's poetry and songs explored the ...

  6. Islam in India - Wikipedia

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    Islam arrived in the inland of Indian subcontinent in the 7th century when the Arabs invaded and conquered Sindh and later arrived in Punjab and North India in the 12th century via the Ghaznavids and Ghurids conquest and has since become a part of India's religious and cultural heritage.

  7. Category:Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    Topics relating to Islamic rule in the Indian subcontinent (encompassing modern day Pakistan, India and Bangladesh). Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

  8. History of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    The Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent absorbed Bengal into the medieval Islamic and Persianate worlds. [3] Between the 1204 and 1352, Bengal was a province of the Delhi Sultanate. [4] This era saw the introduction of the taka as monetary currency, which has endured into the modern era.

  9. Ghaznavids - Wikipedia

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    The Ghaznavid rulers are generally credited with spreading Islam into the Indian subcontinent. They were, however, unable to hold power for long and by 1040 the Seljuk Empire had taken over their Persian domains and a century later the Ghurids took over their remaining sub-continental lands.