Muhammad in eyes of Non-Muslims

[Ali_Syed]

Re: Muhammad in eyes of Non-Muslims

@calypsodc

Other Invaders who came before muslims, made India home, adopted native practices, introduced their own to existing traditions and integrated with the populace to and extent that they were indistinguishable in a few generations. They did not impose their beliefs either politically or by force on the native population. Ex: When Paanini the Great Sanskrit Grammarian came up with his rules, his home was a part of the persian Empire. The Persians did not impose either Zoroastrianism or persian language on the people nor did they have special taxes like Jazia. They only administered, collected rightful taxes and mostly let the people be. When Muslims came, they set themselves apart, did not want the local culture, enticed conversion, taxed unfairly due to religion and usually imposed a different language for administrative purposes other than the native languages and in many cases destroyed places of worship and slaughtered religious men. In short they did not integrate. At the end of the day, India did not become a unified political entity and divided into 2 because the muslims did not want to live with a non-muslim majority. So the Kaur has a point.

Still it does not answer my question, anyways from 300 BC to 1300 AD Cholas ruled South India which separates them from empires existing in other parts of the subcontinent in any case. From 7th century AD Sindh, and Multan had also taken a separate path after the invasion of Arabs.

I will not covering the empires till 1300 AD (because of Cholas). Between 1300’s to 1500’s, Delhi Sultanates ruled Northern India which did not include Southern parts of India. This takes us to Moghuls and British which we can discuss!