Why Hindu Kush mountains means Ganges Indians

[Sindhi(Indus)]

The word Hindu Kush mountains was never to indicate the Kashmiris, Pashtuns, Gilgitis, Kalash, Hunza, Kohistanis that lived in those mountains

The term was given to the Indian slaves who were Hindus from proper India whose bodies were not able to take the extreme cold of the mountains and would literally die on the mountains by the thousands

This indicates that Hindu never meant a person from Kashmir or Pashtunistan

It meant the ganga people

It didn't even mean Pahari Punjabis either because they live in the mountains too

Ibn Battuta also says this also

The Persian-English dictionary[30] indicates that the word 'koš' [koʃ] is derived from the verb ('koštan' کشتن‬ Persian pronunciation: [koʃˈtæn]), meaning "to kill". According to Francis Joseph Steingass, the word and suffix "-kush" means "a male; (imp. of kushtan in comp.) a killer, who kills, slays, murders, oppresses as azhdaha-kush".[31] A Practical Dictionary of the Persian Language gives the meaning of the word kush as "hotbed".[32] According to one interpretation, the name Hindu Kush means "kills the Hindu" or "Hindu killer" and is a reminder of the days when slaves from the Indian subcontinent died in the harsh weather typical of the Afghan mountains while being taken to Central Asia.[25][33][34] The World Book Encyclopedia states that the word kush means death, and was probably given to the mountains because of their dangerous passes.[35]

In his travel memoirs about India, the 14th century Moroccan traveller Muhammad Ibn Battuta mentioned crossing into India via the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush. In his Rihla, he mentions these mountains and the history of the range in slave trading.[36][14]Alexander von Humboldt stated that it can be learned from his work that the name only referred to a single mountain pass upon which many Indian slaves died of the cold weather.[37] Battuta wrote,

After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the Hindu Kush, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves brought thither from India die on account of the intenseness of the cold.

— Ibn Batutta, Chapter XIII, Rihla – Khorasan

 

[Mrc]

It may be pronounced as hindu kus mountains??

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

If it is on Pakistan side we can change it to GREAT Pakistani Mountain Range

 

[Sindhi(Indus)]

Till this day Hindu Kush mountains are written on maps

Till this day Hindustan are people east of the Indus

Till this day Sindh exist and Persians also were using the terms Hindu Kush mountains and Sindh as too different places

Hindu Kush are on the west of the Indus River yet they're still named Hindu Kush

That means there was no geographic mix up of the name either

 

[Sindhi(Indus)]

The British use to say Indians of the ganges were Hindoo

If it is on Pakistan side we can change it to GREAT Pakistani Mountain Range

We should keep it that way as a reminder of the differences from Kashmir and gangadesh

 

[Hamza913]

Hindu Kush is used because Hindu slaves were taken over to Afghanistan during the Muslim conquests, and a lot of those slaves died during the journey.

It shouldn't hurt the feelings of any Pakistani as it cannot refer to the ancestors of Pakistanis because we're not from Afghanistan (and thus cannot be descended from those slaves), and because this occurred during the Ghaznavid/Ghurid conquests. Both of those empires had plenty of Lashkars from what is now Pakistan, and Lahore was a major city for both empires. We're also not Hindu, but Muslim, alhamdulillah.

@Sindhi(Indus)

 

[Goku-kun]

The British use to say Indians of the ganges were Hindoo


We should keep it that way as a reminder of the differences from Kashmir and gangadesh

hey! can you give me the link of that book on the topic that 'Sindh is not part of india' which you posted yesterday.

The word Hindu Kush mountains was never to indicate the Kashmiris, Pashtuns, Gilgitis, Kalash, Hunza, Kohistanis that lived in those mountains

The term was given to the Indian slaves who were Hindus from proper India whose bodies were not able to take the extreme cold of the mountains and would literally die on the mountains by the thousands

This indicates that Hindu never meant a person from Kashmir or Pashtunistan

It meant the ganga people

It didn't even mean Pahari Punjabis either because they live in the mountains too

Ibn Battuta also says this also

The Persian-English dictionary[30] indicates that the word 'koš' [koʃ] is derived from the verb ('koštan' کشتن‬ Persian pronunciation: [koʃˈtæn]), meaning "to kill". According to Francis Joseph Steingass, the word and suffix "-kush" means "a male; (imp. of kushtan in comp.) a killer, who kills, slays, murders, oppresses as azhdaha-kush".[31] A Practical Dictionary of the Persian Language gives the meaning of the word kush as "hotbed".[32] According to one interpretation, the name Hindu Kush means "kills the Hindu" or "Hindu killer" and is a reminder of the days when slaves from the Indian subcontinent died in the harsh weather typical of the Afghan mountains while being taken to Central Asia.[25][33][34] The World Book Encyclopedia states that the word kush means death, and was probably given to the mountains because of their dangerous passes.[35]

In his travel memoirs about India, the 14th century Moroccan traveller Muhammad Ibn Battuta mentioned crossing into India via the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush. In his Rihla, he mentions these mountains and the history of the range in slave trading.[36][14]Alexander von Humboldt stated that it can be learned from his work that the name only referred to a single mountain pass upon which many Indian slaves died of the cold weather.[37] Battuta wrote,

After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the Hindu Kush, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves brought thither from India die on account of the intenseness of the cold.

— Ibn Batutta, Chapter XIII, Rihla – Khorasan

Great! and I will request you to start a thread which clearly shows that Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir are two seprate lands with many differences please.

 

[Sindhi(Indus)]

Remember this thread is directed towards Indian Hindus of the ganges not Indian Muslims who are from Arab, Mughal, Buddhist, lower caste, or any other background that is separate from mainstream Indians

I hope no Indian Muslim or Indian Buddhist takes my threads seriously

Mughals never transported Muslims from India

They actually were working in the government

Even Ghaznavid had Indian Muslims working with the guy

 

[Hamza913]

Remember this thread is directed towards Indian Hindus of the ganges not Indian Muslims who are from Arab, Mughal, Buddhist, lower caste, or any other background that is separate from mainstream Indians

I hope no Indian Muslim or Indian Buddhist takes my threads seriously

Mughals never transported Muslims from India

They actually were working in the government

Even Ghaznavid had Indian Muslims working with the guy

This is true to some extent.

Indians who don't come from Muslim backgrounds have no reason to like these conquerors. It doesn't matter if they're low or high caste, or if they're Hindu or Buddhist. The ghazis treated them all the same, i.e as enemies.

However, the ones who do come from Muslim backgrounds have ancestors that almost certainly did either work for the Muslim dynasties (mainly as soldiers and Imams but also sometimes as administrators), founded their own (e.g the Rajput dynasty of Gujarat), or came to the region as migrants (this would be the Ashrafs, i.e the
Mughals, Qureshis, Pathans, Syeds, etc).

Recent Muslim converts from India should also take these Muslim conquerors as heroes because they fought for Islam, not for any ethnicity or nationality.