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    in the Indian subcontinent is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military...
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    The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Earlier Muslim conquests in the subcontinent...
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    coincides with the Gupta Empire. Following the conquest of Islamic rulers in the Indian subcontinent and spread of Islam in South Asia, an era featuring persecution...
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  • Shia Islam was brought to the Indian subcontinent during the final years of the Rashidun Caliphate. The Indian subcontinent also served as a refuge for...
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    modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years...
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    revivalism and predominant role of Hindu temple architecture in the Indian Subcontinent. A strongly probable shrine from Upper Paleolithic period dated...
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    Education in the Indian subcontinent began with teaching of traditional elements such as Indian religions, Indian mathematics, Indian logic at early Hindu...
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    Islam first spread along the coastal regions of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, almost as soon as it started in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Arab...
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    records suggest that the Cheraman Perumal Mosque was built in around 629. Islamic rule first came to the Indian subcontinent in the 8th century, when Muhammad...
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    shortly after the religion emerged in the Arabian Peninsula. Islam arrived in the inland of Indian subcontinent in the 7th century when the Arabs conquered...
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  • The study of women's history in the Indian subcontinent has been a major scholarly and popular field, with many scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits...
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    The Timurid Renaissance or Turkic Renaissance was a historical period in Asian and Islamic history spanning the late 14th, the 15th, and the early 16th...
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    Sultans of Delhi were the rulers of the Muslim empire based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the subcontinent during the period of Medieval India...
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  • of Islamic rulers in the Indian subcontinent and spread of Islam in South Asia, an era featuring persecution of Hindus began and continued until the end...
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    colonisation, the Persian language was the lingua franca of the Indian subcontinent and a widely used official language in North India. The language was...
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    Sculpture in the Indian subcontinent Sculpture in the Indian subcontinent, partly because of the climate of the Indian subcontinent makes the long-term...
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    the 10th and 11th centuries, into the Indian subcontinent, led primarily by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni (r. 998–1030), leaving a profound impact on the region's...
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    settled in Indonesia and mixed with local communities. Islam is thought[by whom?] to have been present in Southeast Asia from early in the Islamic era. From...
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    Hindustan (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    broadly referring to the Indian subcontinent. Being the Iranic cognate of the Indic word Sindhu, it originally referred to the land of lower Indus basin...
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    Indo-Islamic architecture is the architecture of the Indian subcontinent produced by and for Islamic patrons and purposes. Despite an initial Arab presence...
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    The history of Islam in China dates back to 1,300 years ago. Currently, Chinese Muslims are a minority group in China, representing between 0.45% to 1...
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    of the various dynasties and monarchs that have ruled in the Indian subcontinent and it is one of several lists of incumbents. The earliest Indian rulers...
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  • ushered in a new age of Mongol-Islamic synthesis that shaped the further spread of Islam in central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In the 1330s, the Mongol...
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    succession by the Mughal Empire. The establishment of the Sultanate drew the Indian subcontinent more closely into international and multicultural Islamic social...
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    The history of Islam in Sicily and southern Italy began with the first Arab settlement in Sicily, at Mazara, which was captured in 827. The subsequent...
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    process." The decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent coincides with the spread of Islam in that part of the world, especially due to the Islamic invasions...
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  • The Indian subcontinent has a long history of education and learning from the era of Indus Valley civilization. Important ancient institutions of learning...
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    its dissolution in 1857. They were the supreme monarchs of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent, mainly corresponding to the modern countries...
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    of the Indian subcontinent between the "ancient period" and "modern period". It is usually regarded as running approximately from the breakup of the Gupta...
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    the Indian cultural sphere, was popularised by a network of Bengali scholars in the 1920s. It is an umbrella term encompassing the Indian subcontinent and...
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