Indian Perceptions of Arabs

Hello to you all my fellow Indians and Happy Eid.

It really depends on who you ask as to what they think on Muhammed bin Qasims invasions. Muslims typically think positively about the Arab invasion, and think highly of bin Qasim. At the time, the Buddhist population also welcomed bin Qasim against the rulers of Sindh, who were Hindu.

Originally posted by andrew Muslims believed that other religions shouldn't be accepted and Hindus believed any religion is acceptable.   The Muslims saw these worshiping of multiple gods was unacceptable. As a result Muslims smashed Hindu temples and Buddhist shrines. They are still divided to this day.

Seriously, you believe that?

Muslims ruled all of South Asia for a very long time. If they wanted Hindu temples destroyed, there wouldnt be any standing right now, so please.

And Bin Quasim invaded Sindh first, i.e modern Pakistan. India was unaffected for a little while, unless you were referring to Islams spread in South Asia.

Its rather confusing when states which were separate at that time, are combined and referred to as India, not to mention that the state in question is not even in modern India either.

People here have a mental picture of British Raj, which existed in 19 and 20th century, and they use that map to refer to "India" for any given time period. What is up with that???

Originally posted by andrew Through their history India have accepted foregin invader such as Aryans, Greeks, and pre-Islamic Mongols and integrated it into their society especially in the north where it was a constant battling ground between different princes and states. However Muslims never were really integrated into Indian culture because their difference were so vast.

I'm going to disagree with you on that point though. The muslim population pretty well replaced the buddhist population, mainly because the buddhist population of the subcontinent became the muslim population of the subcontinent.

Originally posted by Sparten Ghranai, the communties especailly in rural areas were seperate. Always.

It's not that India did now welcome Islam, Islam did not welcome India. And as Sparten said they were seperated in rural areas and there was discrimination. In the Delhi Sultanate, Muslims would hold the government and give more rights to Muslims then Hindus. At times they came under a good natured ruler, Akbar, who was a liberal Muslim and was many times was threatened to no longer be king especially after he tried to combine Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity in one religion.

Dear Andrew, even the most "fanatic" muslim ruler of India, Aurengzeb, had the majority of his army and civil service from Hindu rajputs. It was hindus under muslim command fighting hindus under hindu command.

The battle of delphi and stuff with ALexander is far more intresting (to me) then the Arabian empires conquest.I mean Alexander fought hundreds of men on elephants with only around 15,000 foot soliders while Arabia had a bu nnch of ''holy''battles with India and where realetivley small.Now dont get me wrong the Arabian empire is fasinating to study but I like the boy king more.

To my info NWFP was controlled by Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan party who opposed union with pakistan.And idea of Pakistan was adovacted by Nawab of Dhaka in the beginning.