The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.35

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At this period the politics of the Hindu Rājpūt states of Northern India became complicated by the intrusion of Muhammadan invaders. The Arab conquest of Sind, in A.D. 712, did not seriously affect the kingdoms of the interior. The Arabs maintained friendly relations on the whole with their powerful Rāshtrakūta neighbours on the south, and their attacks on the dominions of the Gurjara kings of Rājputāna and Kanauj do not seem ever to have exceeded the proportions of frontier raids. But now the armies of Islam began to appear in more formidable fashion through the north-western passes, the gates which had so often admitted the enemies of India.