Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c14.4

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By the year 1000 A.D., the extreme north-western parts of India, in the trans-Indus region, had become introduced to Islam. As early as A.D. 664, consequent upon an invasion of Kabul and its environs (which then formed part of India), by Abdur Rahman, a few thousand inhabitants are reported to have been converted to Islam.¹ Subuktagin also fought against the Hindus and converted some of them. But all these events took place in the trans-Indus region, and we may, therefore, agree with Lanepoole in saying that in A.D. 1000 there were no Muslims in northern India east of the Indus.²