While Buddhism declined and ultimately disappeared after Arab conquest mainly due to conversion of almost entire Buddhist population to Islam, Hinduism managed to survive through the Muslim rule until before the partition of India as a significant minority. The Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang, who visited the region in the years 630–644, said that Buddhism dominated, but also noted that it was declining. Hinduism along with Buddhism was the predominant religion in Sindh before the Arab Islamic conquest. Main articles: Sindhi Hindus, Hinduism in Sindh Province, and Sindhis in India Habbari, Soomra, Samma, Kalhora dynasties ruled Sindh.Įthnicity and religion Part of a series on After 632 AD, it was part of the Islamic empires of the Abbasids and Umayyids. Before this period, it was heavily Hindu and Buddhist. Sindh was one of the earliest regions to be conquered by the Arabs and influenced by Islam after 720 AD. The Ror dynasty was a power from the Indian subcontinent that ruled modern-day Sindh and Northwest India from 450 BC – 489 AD. Alexander the Great marched through Punjab and Sindh, down the Indus river, after his conquest of the Persian Empire. and in the first five centuries of the first millennium A.D., western portions of Sindh, the regions on the western flank of the Indus river, were intermittently under Persian, Greek and Kushan rule, first during the Achaemenid dynasty (500–300 BC) during which it made up part of the easternmost satrapies, then, by Alexander the Great, followed by the Indo-Greeks and still later under the Indo-Sassanids, as well as Kushans, before the Islamic invasions between the 7th–10th century AD.

This civilisation helped shape subsequent cultures in South Asia.įor several centuries in the first millennium B.C. The Indo-Aryans are believed to have founded the Vedic civilisation that existed between the Sarasvati River and Ganges river around 1500 BC. The Indus Valley Civilisation went into decline around the year 1700 BC for reasons that are not entirely known, though its downfall was probably precipitated by an earthquake or natural event that dried up the Ghaggar River.

Vintage group photo of Indian Sindhi people Pre-historic period

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