Brief History of Afghans in India from 682 A.D to 1436 A.D

[dil_dil]

Afghans made their first expedition into India in 705 AD, when their contingent from Khurasan, then under the rule of Abdul Malik Hijjaj bin Yousuf joined Muhammad bin Qasim to Sind. (Henry Priestly, “Inhabitants of Afghanistan” p- 25.)
See also The Encyclopaedia of Islam p-782

You are using labels like afghans and pashtuns loosely and rewriting history, you remind me of pdf Indians historians.

 

[Force-India]

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[Aepsilons]

Tajiks the mongoloid race (Moghuls) converted Iran and Baloch to Islam because only easier route to it was through the Afghan or through India. Later they invaded India snd defeated small Arab army at outskirts of India (Sindh etc.),then conquered north India. But they were less in numbers, and they acted as the President while on lower levels kingdom was ruled by Hindus. Arabs came for spread of Islam and teachings of Muhammed (PBUH) while Moghuls were power hungry specialy Aurangzeb. He converted most of Punjab and Kashmir, later defeated by Sikhs and Marathas.

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Emperor Aurangzeb was one of the latter Emperors of the Mughal Empire. If you want to judge the character of the Moghul Empire, its best to analyze the strategies, policies of the first Emperor, Babar. Or his great successors such as Humayun, Akbar E Azam, Jahangir. These were the ones that spread the Mughal Empire to its greatest extent.

This was seen during the reign of Emperor Jahangir, who had a very good relationship with Shah Abbas of the Safavid Dynasty:

 

[Aepsilons]

Greatest Extent of the Mughal Empire, under the reign of

Sahib-e-Qiran-e-Sani, Azam Panah, Zillullah, Shahanshah, Emperor Akbar E Azam.

 

[Samandri]

You are using labels like afghans and pashtuns loosely and rewriting history, you remind me of pdf Indians historians.

The word Afghan in the history is strictly used for Pashtuns. I copied the reference of Afghan contingent of Muhammad bin qasim's army from "History of the Pathans volume I" by Brigd.Haroon Rashid. Even strict historian like H.G.Raverty, who rejects Afghan roots of Langahs and connection of Khiljis with ghilzais, writes that in the Arab military campaign towards multan, Afghans were recruited from the district of Roh.

 

[Rafi]

The word Afghan in history is strictly used for Pashtuns.

But today, Afghan is linked with the nation state with that name.

 

[dil_dil]

The word Afghan in the history is strictly used for Pashtuns. I copied the reference of Afghan contingent of Muhammad bin qasim's army from "History of the Pathans volume I" by Brigd.Haroon Rashid. Even strict historian like H.G.Raverty, who rejects Afghan roots of Langahs and connection of Khiljis with ghilzais, writes that in the Arab military campaign towards multan, Afghans were recruited from the district of Roh.

Langah are not pashtuns, going by old books Awans were Afghans since we don't see any alternative theory. But there is enough evidence for Langah not being pashtuns. And its not just H.G Raverty, also H.A Rose and many others.

Also just like here, you are possibly rewriting history of Tajiks with Afghan label.

 

[Samandri]

Langah are not pashtuns, going by old books Awans were Afghans since we don't see any alternative theory. But there is enough evidence for Langah not being pashtuns. And its not just H.G Raverty, also H.A Rose and many others.

Also just like here, you are possibly rewriting history of Tajiks with Afghan label.

In Historical sources, word Afghan has never been used for Tajiks, Uzbeks or Hazaras. As a matter of fact, Durrani rulers of Afghanistan imposed Afghan identity on ethnic minorities.

 

[dil_dil]

In Historical sources, word Afghan has never been used for Tajiks, Uzbeks or Hazaras. As a matter of fact, Durrani rulers of Afghanistan imposed Afghan identity on ethnic minorities.

Just like they imposed them on karlani tribes of FATA and KPK, do you deny this?

 

[Samandri]

But today, Afghan is linked with the nation state with that name.

Yes but when you read about Afghans before creation of Afghanistan state, it strictly means Pashtuns.

 

[Samandri]

Just like they imposed them on karlani tribes of FATA and KPK, do you deny this?

Are you saying that some one imposed word Afghan on Khushal Khan Khattak ?. All Pashtuns are Afghans. Afghan nationality shouldnt be confused with Afghan ethnicity.

 

[dil_dil]

Are you saying that some one imposed word Afghan on Khushal Khan Khattak ?. All Pashtuns are Afghans. Afghan nationality shouldnt be confused with Afghan ethnicity.

They ''Assimilated'', actually its you who said Durrani imposed their identity on Afghanis. While you create this thread with hilarious theory of aborginals living in FATA before pashtuns invaded considiring Karlani tribes have FATA origin since thousands of years long before pashtun identity was formed.

Yes Durranis and Ghilzais pashtuns indeed invaded.

 

[Samandri]

They ''Assimilated'', actually its you who said Durrani imposed their identity on Afghanis. While you create this thread with hilarious theory of aborginals living in FATA before pashtuns invaded considiring Karlani tribes have FATA origin since thousands of years long before pashtun identity was formed.

Yes Durranis and Ghilzais pashtuns indeed invaded.

They are indeed theories, there is no proof that people by name of "pothi" used to live in marwat plains or in Mianwali there was race of gigantic people......just read it for interest.

 

[dil_dil]

@Samandri
I see most of punjabi-pathans are actually migrants from East Punjab, can you shed more light on their history? Shirwani tribe you mentioned also migrated from east punjab.

And i was reading this about Lohani pathans in Gurdaspur.

''A professor from the Lahore University of Management Services, Dr Furrukh A. Khan, visited a number of places in the border region to trace the two-century old origin of the Lohani Pathans in Gurdaspur district.''

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Amritsar PLUS

 

[Samandri]

@Samandri
I see most of punjabi-pathans are actually migrants from East Punjab, can you shed more light on their history? Shirwani tribe you mentioned also migrated from east punjab.

And i was reading this about Lohani pathans in Gurdaspur.

''A professor from the Lahore University of Management Services, Dr Furrukh A. Khan, visited a number of places in the border region to trace the two-century old origin of the Lohani Pathans in Gurdaspur district.''

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Amritsar PLUS

Pathan families in east punjab, before partition, were mainly concentrated in Hoshiarpur, jalandhar and malerkotla. There are books written on the pathans of respective districts by an author by name of Ayub Khan.