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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. List of early Hindu–Muslim military conflicts in the Indian ...

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    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. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Persecution of Hindus - Wikipedia

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    As the Indo-Islamic conquests of the 11th and 12th-centuries moved beyond Panjab and the Himalayan foothills of the northwest into the Ganges-Yamuna Doab region, states Andre Wink, "some of the most important sacred sites of Indian culture were destroyed and desecrated," [27] and their broken parts consistently reused to make Islamic monuments.

  7. 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.

  8. Spread of Islam - Wikipedia

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    The spread of Islam spans almost 1,400 years. The early Muslim conquests that occurred following the death of Muhammad in 632 CE led to the creation of the caliphates, expanding over a vast geographical area; conversion to Islam was boosted by Arab Muslim forces expanding over vast territories and building imperial structures over time.

  9. Outline of South Asian history - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of South Asia.. The broader region in and around the historical Indian subcontinent, which includes the contemporary geopolitical entities of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and the island countries of Maldives and Sri Lanka.