How did Muslims influence India?

ADVERTISEMENTS: Islam brought to India a conception of human equality, pride in one’s religion, a legal system which was in many ways an advance on the codes of the time Hindu rulers were influenced to work as the upholders of Hindu religion.

Which religion has more population in India?

Hinduism is professed by the majority of population in India. The Hindus are most numerous in 27 states/Uts except in Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Lakshadweep, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab. The Muslims professing Islam are in majority in Lakshadweep and Jammu & Kashmir.

What is the relationship between Islam and Hinduism?

Although the two religions of Islam and Hinduism are very different in their teachings and beliefs, they do have many similarities. Both religions have sets of laws that believers must follow. For Hindus, their laws are the dharma, and many Muslims follow sharia law, which are sets of religious rules one must obey.

What is the narrative of Indian Muslims?

A narrative is a story one weaves to inhabit as a character. Indian Muslims wove a false narrative, and immured themselves into it. There could be another. The one of India’s rise. They would be indispensable to the plot if they could rewrite their story. Najmul Hoda is an IPS officer. Views are personal.

Who are India’s Muslims?

Muslim women in the state of Assam protest against India’s new citizenship law in February 2020. Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images Some two hundred million Muslims live in India, making up the predominantly Hindu country’s largest minority group.

Why were converts to Islam treated as low borns in medieval India?

According to Zia Barni, a prominent medieval historian, the new rulers’ contempt for everything Indian was so deep-seated that the Indian converts to Islam were loathed as low-born and were kept outside the sphere of power.

What happened to the power of Indian Muslims?

Since Indian Muslims, as Muslims, never had much power, it would be wrong to say that they lost any. The ruling class had a preponderance of foreigners. They were Turks, Persians, Afghans and Arabs whose religion was Islam. In the transition from medieval to modern, and from feudalism to capitalism, most of them fell by the wayside.