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Islam is India's second-largest religion,[7]with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islamin a 2011 census.[8] Indiaalso has the third-largestnumber of Muslimsin the world. [9][10]The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shiamaking up around 15% of the Muslim population. [11]
From the late 12th century onwards, Muslim empires dominated the subcontinent, most notably the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire. [2] Various other Muslim kingdoms ruled most of South Asia from the mid-14th to late 18th centuries, including the Bahmani, Bengal, Gujarat, Malwa, Mysore, Carnatic and Deccan Sultanates. [3] [4] Though the Muslim dynasties in India were diversed in origin, they ...
This is a list of notable mosques in India. India currently has more than 300,000 active mosques. India has the third largest Muslim population. [1] [2]
The renaming of the cities in India started in 1947 following the end of the British imperial period. Several changes were controversial, and not all proposed changes were implemented. Each had to be approved by Government of India in Delhi . The renaming of states and territories in India has also taken place, but until the 2010s with actual ...
This is a list of the largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states, based on the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report (2010 population estimates from the report's 2007 revision).
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The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Earlier Muslim conquests in the subcontinent include the invasions which started in the northwestern subcontinent (modern-day Pakistan ), especially the Umayyad campaigns during the 8th century. Mahmud of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, preserved an ideological link to the ...
Hyderabad is the sixth largest city in India out of twenty-eight states [1] and the capital of the Telangana state in the Indian Deccan Plateau, with the Musi River flowing through the city. [2] Its current population stands at 11,068,877 with the majority speaking the Telugu and Urdu languages. [3] 10 dynasties, both Hindu and Muslim, ruled over Hyderabad until the formation of the Republic ...