Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent
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Muslim conquests on the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 12th to the 16th centuries, though earlier Muslim conquests made limited inroads into modern Afghanistan and Pakistan as early as the time of the Rajput kingdoms in the 8th century. With the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate, Islam spread across large parts of the subcontinent. In 1204, Bakhtiar Khilji led the Muslim conquest of Bengal, marking the eastern-most expansion of Islam at the time.
Prior to the rise of the Maratha Empire, which was followed by the conquest of India by the British East India Company, the Muslim Mughal Empire was able to annex or subjugate most of India's kings. However, it was never able to conquer the kingdoms in upper reaches of the Himalayas such as the regions of today's Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan; the extreme south of India, such as Travancore and Tamil Nadu; and in the east, such as the Ahom kingdom in Assam.
See also
- List of early Hindu Muslim military conflicts in the Indian subcontinent
- Islamic conquest of Afghanistan
- List of Pashtun empires and dynasties
- Islamic empires in India
- Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire
- Tibetan Expedition of Islamic Bengal
- History of Pakistan
- History of Bangladesh
- Delhi Sultanate
- Mughal empire
- Mughal era
- Iconoclasm
- Persecution of Hindus
- Persecution of Buddhists
