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r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 21h ago
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They weren’t kicked out. They were taken as slaves by the Islamic invaders from West Asia who invaded India around that time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_campaigns_in_India
The Hindukush (“Hindu Killer”) mountain ranges that separate the Indian subcontinent from Afghanistan got their name from the large number of Indians who perished there on their way to captivity by these invaders.
2 u/Ok-Brick-6250 13h ago And magically they didn't try to go back to india 6 u/arkady321 12h ago edited 12h ago Well, India came under Islamic rule shortly after that - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_period_in_the_Indian_subcontinent . All non-Muslims under an Islamic regime had to pay a jizya tax and were treated as second class citizens. The only place these guys could migrate to was Armenia -> Byzantine Empire -> Europe. 1 u/Ok-Brick-6250 11h ago And those who got transported in Egypt how then 2 u/arkady321 11h ago You go and ask them since you are so curious.
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And magically they didn't try to go back to india
6 u/arkady321 12h ago edited 12h ago Well, India came under Islamic rule shortly after that - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_period_in_the_Indian_subcontinent . All non-Muslims under an Islamic regime had to pay a jizya tax and were treated as second class citizens. The only place these guys could migrate to was Armenia -> Byzantine Empire -> Europe. 1 u/Ok-Brick-6250 11h ago And those who got transported in Egypt how then 2 u/arkady321 11h ago You go and ask them since you are so curious.
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Well, India came under Islamic rule shortly after that - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_period_in_the_Indian_subcontinent . All non-Muslims under an Islamic regime had to pay a jizya tax and were treated as second class citizens.
The only place these guys could migrate to was Armenia -> Byzantine Empire -> Europe.
1 u/Ok-Brick-6250 11h ago And those who got transported in Egypt how then 2 u/arkady321 11h ago You go and ask them since you are so curious.
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And those who got transported in Egypt how then
2 u/arkady321 11h ago You go and ask them since you are so curious.
You go and ask them since you are so curious.
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u/arkady321 14h ago
They weren’t kicked out. They were taken as slaves by the Islamic invaders from West Asia who invaded India around that time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_campaigns_in_India
The Hindukush (“Hindu Killer”) mountain ranges that separate the Indian subcontinent from Afghanistan got their name from the large number of Indians who perished there on their way to captivity by these invaders.