[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928) › v3.c19.35 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c19.35 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c19.35 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c19.35) Of the Arab conquest of Sind there is nothing more to be said. It was a mere episode in the history of India and affected only a small portion of the fringe of that vast country. It introduced into one frontier tract the religion which was destined to dominate the greater part of India for nearly five centuries, but it had none of the far-reaching effects attributed to it by Tod in the \*Annals of Rājasthān\*. Muhammad b. Qāsim never penetrated to Chitor in the heart of Rājputāna; the Caliph Walīd I did not ‘render tributary all that part of India on this side the Ganges’; the invader was never ‘on the eve of carrying the war against Raja Harchund of Kanouj,’ much less did he actually prosecute it; if Hārūn-ur-Rashīd gave to his second son, al-Ma‘mūn, ‘Khorassan, Zabulisthan, Cabulisthan, Sind and Hindusthan,’ he bestowed on him at least one country which was not his to give; nor was the whole of northern India, as Tod maintains, convulsed by the invasion of the Arabs. One of these, as we have seen, advanced to Adhoī in Cutch, but no settlement was made, and the expedition was a mere raid; and though the first news of the irruption may have suggested warlike preparations to the princes of Rājasthān their uneasiness cannot have endured. The tide of Islam, having overflowed Sind and the lower Punjab, ebbed, leaving some jetsam on the strand. The rulers of states beyond the desert had no cause for alarm. That was to come later, and the enemy was to be, not the Arab, but the Turk, who was to present the faith of the Arabian prophet in a more terrible guise than it had worn when presented by native Arabians. - [Previous: v3.c19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c19.34) - [Next: v3.c20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.2) - [Up: v3.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c19.35) · Pramāṇa