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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 ...
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.
While Mahmud's conquests were driven by a desire for wealth and power, they also led to the spread of Persian culture and the introduction of Islam in the region. His expeditions marked the beginning of a series of foreign invasions into India, ultimately shaping the course of its history for centuries to come.
Astronomical and astrological knowledge was also probably transmitted to India from Babylon during the 5th century BCE as a consequence of the Achaemenid presence in the sub-continent. [131] [132] Babylonian astronomy was the first form of astronomy to fully develop and likely influenced other civilizations. The spread of knowledge may have ...
Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent began in the early 8th century CE with a Muhammad ibn Qasim-led army. This campaign is narrated in the Chach Nama by Bakr Kūfī, a 13th-century manuscript which claimed to be based on an earlier Arabic record. [14]
The Ghurid campaigns in India were a series of invasions for 31 years (1175–1206) by the Ghurid ruler Muhammad of Ghor (r. 1173–1206) in the last quarter of the twelfth and early decade of the thirteenth century which lead to the widespread expansion of the Ghurid empire in the Indian subcontinent.
Early Maratha conquests, in Shivaji's and Shahji's time A portrait of Shivaji I Shivaji (1630–1680) was a Maratha aristocrat of the Bhonsle clan and was the founder of the Maratha state. [ 25 ] Shivaji led a resistance against the Sultanate of Bijapur in 1645 by winning the fort Torna, followed by many more forts, placing the area under his ...
The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. The Ghurid ruler Muhammad of Ghor laid the foundation of Muslim rule in India in 1192, [221] expanding up to Bengal by 1202. The Ghurid Empire soon evolved into the Delhi Sultanate in 1206, transitioning to the Mamluk dynasty.