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Despite the longtime assertion that the origins of Muslim-Hindu tensions were greatly attributed to 19th Century British colonial rule in India, it has been argued that Britain had little influence on constructing the religious identities of Islam and Hinduism in the region and that divisions existed beforehand as well. [23]
While there is a tendency to view the Muslim conquests and Muslim empires as a prolonged period of violence against Hindu culture, [note 2] in between the periods of wars and conquests, there were harmonious Hindu-Muslim relations in most Indian communities, [176] and the Indian population grew during the medieval Muslim times. No populations ...
Religious violence broke out between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969, in Gujarat. [57] It was the most deadly Hindu-Muslim violence since the 1947 partition of India. [58] [59] The violence included attacks on Muslim chawls by their Dalit neighbours. [59] The violence continued over a week, then the rioting restarted a month ...
A different Hindu temple was subsequently built nearby in 1780 and for centuries, Hindus and Muslims prayed at their respective sites side by side, the temple’s gold stripes standing alongside ...
The Citizenship Amendment Act provides a fast track to naturalization for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and ...
In the Indian Rebellion of 1857, many Hindus and Muslims in India joined together as Indians to fight against the British East India Company. [20] The British introduced a system of separate electorates, which exacerbated the divide between the Hindu and Muslim communities.
Muslims and Hindus were together in good and bad times, weddings to deaths. Now we live our separate ways despite living in the same village," said Gulfam Ali, who runs a small shop selling bread ...
Several Muslim outposts fall to Pratihara incursions [1] 810-820 Muslim Kabul: Caliph Al-Ma'mun, Nagabhata II: Kabul falls to Muslims, is then retaken by Hindus. [1] 820-830 Muslim Fort Sindan al-Fadl ibn Mahan Sindan captured, but Hindu riots make pacification of Sindh impossible. [1] 839 Hindu Fort Sindan Mihira Bhoja: Hindus expel Muslim ...