Northwest India was a historical region, geographically located on the north-western Indian subcontinent. It predominantly constitutes what are now parts of the present-day South Asian republics of India and Pakistan (specifically modern north-western India and eastern Pakistan) after the 1947 Partition of British India.[1][2]
The region encompassed the modern Pakistan and the territory of the modern India approximately to the west of the 77th meridian east and north of the 24th parallel north.[3]
History edit
The Indus Valley Civilisation formed in the northwestern subcontinent over 4000 years ago, with climate change potentially having caused its later decline.[4]
Northwest India was a hub of Buddhism in ancient times, [5][6] and was the region from which Buddhism reached China by travelling through Central Asia.
The Umayyad Caliphate conquered Sindh in the 8th century CE,[7] marking the beginning of what was to become a major Islamic presence in the region.[8]
See also edit
- Indus River, which the name "India" is derived from
- North-Western Provinces, a region in British India
References edit
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- ^ Verardi, Giovanni (2012). "Buddhism in North-western India and Eastern Afghanistan, Sixth to Ninth Century AD". ZINBUN. 43: 147–183. doi:10.14989/155685. ISSN 0084-5515.
- ^ Michon, Daniel (2015-08-12). Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India: History, Theory, Practice. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-32458-4.
- ^ Formichi, Chiara, ed. (2020), "Islam across the Oxus (Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries)", Islam and Asia: A History, New Approaches to Asian History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 10–41, doi:10.1017/9781316226803.004, ISBN 978-1-107-10612-3, S2CID 238121625, retrieved 2023-11-30
- ^ "Do you know how Islam spread in the Indian subcontinent?". EgyptToday. 2017-05-29. Retrieved 2023-11-30.