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Islam is India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim population.
Muslim rule in India saw a major shift in the cultural, linguistic, and religious makeup of the subcontinent. Persian and Arabic vocabulary began to enter local languages, giving way to modern Punjabi, Bengali, and Gujarati, while creating new languages including Urdu and its dialect, Deccani , used as official languages under Muslim dynasties. [9]
The Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi produced his medieval atlas, Tabula Rogeriana or The Recreation for Him Who Wishes to Travel Through the Countries, in 1154.He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited from the classical geographers to create the most accurate map of the world in pre ...
The names of regions, important cities, rivers, and mountains are underlined in red. In 1845, the First Anglo-Sikh War broke out. According to The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Gulab Singh contrived to hold himself aloof till the battle of Sobraon (1846), when he appeared as a useful mediator and the trusted advisor of Sir Henry Lawrence. Two ...
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 ...
Map of the central Ladakh region. Ladakh is the highest plateau in India with most of it being over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). It extends from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges and includes the upper Indus River valley. The confluence of the Indus (flowing left-to-right) and Zanskar (coming in from top) rivers.
The major rivers in this system are (in order of merging, from west to east) Ganges - 2,525 kilometres (1,569 mi) [8] Starting from Gangotri Glacier, Uttarakhand, India. Chambal - 1,024 kilometres (636 mi) Flows through Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and merges into Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh. Betwa - 676 kilometres (420 mi) Not Himalayan river, covers ...
Hunza. Coordinates. 36°19′01″N 74°39′00″E / . 36.316942°N 74.649900°E. / 36.316942; 74.649900. [1] Baltit fort as seen from Ultar Hunza. The Hunza Valley ( Burushaski: ہُنزݳ دِش, romanized: Hunza Dish; Wakhi / Urdu: وادی ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley in the northern part of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of ...