Islam in India

Islam has impacted India and its history in more ways than one. During the time when Islam was being established in India there were many changes that were being made during the process, including religion. This new religion was able to convert Hinduism and Buddhism. Which had also impacted India's caste system. In 711 CE, "India had faced many invaders, but no substantial challenges on both a military and cultural level" (Butler). However, when Islam had come along they had never seen such power and sophistication from a group of people. Before, this had occurred Arabs had trades with India. An later Arab converted to Islam and between the processes of the Arabs and India trading. Islam started to spread throughout India making a huge statement…

Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-American comedian and an actor. He jokes about ISIS, Iranians, and Muslims. Jobrani stars in Descendants on Disney channel and he also stars in a comedy movie called friday after next. He stars in a lot more cinemas. In one of his comedy shows he was joking about how people always think he is going to blow up something just because where he was born in Iran. Maz Jobrani attempts to use comedy to substitute for the bad things, like when people think he’s bad news. He…

The author of A Passage to India is Edward Morgan Forster who was a British writer in 20th century. Forster’s works include six novels, two collections of short stories, several biographies and some commentaries. He had twice traveled to India, and accorded to his own experiences and feelings, wrote A Passage to India this novel. The novel tells of the early twentieth century, the British Mrs. Moore and Miss Adela traveled to India. The former visited the son of a colonial official there, while…

Gandhi, on the other hand, was a religious person, and one of the few who could link religion with politics. Until the Church was separated from the state, both religion and politics/state existed collectively as a whole even in South Asian countries: be it Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or Sikhism. T. N. Madan in his essay Secularism in Its Place puts forward how both religion and politics existed together from the pre-historic times and the rise of Christianity…

the most influential and inspiring people in the world because of what he had done for humanity, especially in India. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi in Sanskrit means ‘the great soul’. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, India, on October 2nd 1869. He died in New Delhi, India, on January 30th 1948 at the age of 78. He is a spiritual leader and a politician from India. Gandhi was a religious person. He persevered to fight for India’s independence. He joined India’s Independence…

Geography of the World Chapter 8A & 8B Summary The South Asian Realm South Asia may be the most diverse realm in the world. Mountains, deserts, and the Indian Ocean are some the features that mark this realm. Another feature of this realm is the great rivers, especially the Ganges that has for many years supported the clustered population in this realm. India was the birthplace of major religions that impacted this realm. Religions like Hinduism and Buddhism originated in India. Foreign…

training school served as a way to allow individuals from lower ranks of society to rule, while simultaneously limiting the power of the emperor along with the upper-class. Qin Shihuangdi provided a single law code for the entire temple, and appointed governors, military, and any other legal powers. India, on the other hand didn’t have a strict political structure. The social aspect, had a beyond rigid system, called the caste system. Everyone in India was born into the caste system. Someone…

For the next 1,500 years, different parts of India were ruled by Middle kingdoms, among which the famous Gupta Empire stood out. This period witnessed an intellectual resurgence of the Hindu religion. It can be called the "Golden Age of India". During this time, aspects of culture and religion spread to a lot of Asia, while kingdoms in southern India had sea trade with the Roman Empire. During this time, the Indian cultural influence spread over large areas of Southeast Asia. This would lead…

Empire in 335 AD and ruled till 380 AD. Samudragupta was known for his military prowess and is known as the Napoleon of India. He carried out a series of military conquests and conquered Afghanistan and Kashmir in the north. His empire stretched over the most of northern and central India. He was also a poet and patronized music and art. He tried to modernize the monetary system through the minting of different types of gold coins. Samudragupta was succeeded by his son, Chandragupta II (also…

In the documentary World Before Her, the stark contrasts of modern and traditional India are shown through the eyes of young women. One world shows the lengthy, painful, and often vain process that leads to being a contestant in the Miss India pageant, the other shows the strict and disciplined life of a member of the Durga Vahini, Indian nationalist women’s camp. Both sides of India, traditional and modern, face different issues revolving around the role of women in society but in very…