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    ‘The Arabs came to India as traders long before they came a invaders, Arab seafaring brought traders and even settlers to the west coast of India, It was a one-sided process. Indians could not go to Arabia, for if they crossed the sea, they would lose their caste. Some Indians were forcibly taken to Itaq by the Sassanid rulers of Iran but, this cannot count asa trend. The Coromandel Coast was called ‘Ma'bar' by the Arabs, which means ‘crossing. These Arabs {stablished colonies on the west coast of India. When Arabs converted to Islam, these colonies became the outposts of Islam in India. At first there was fittle resistance to the Arab settlers. Pandya kings employed Muslims as ministers and ambassadors, Thus, some Muslims were given more importance than Buddhists or Jains. . ‘Conquest ‘A change in relations came about because of the Arab invasion of Sindh and Multan in Ap 71. Even then a complete éhange in relations seems not to have taken place. The Labbes, a west Indian Muslim tribe, claimed to be the descendants ofthe Hiashimites who sought refuge here from Hajaj bin Yusuf, and it was Hajj bin Yusuf who, as the eastern viceroy of the caliph, organized the invasion of Sindh, “The Arab invasion of Sindh was notan isolate conquests which ‘included Spai ‘Asia. The réasons for the invasion of Sindh must be seen withi -work. It is quite possible, as the sources tell us, that pirates off the coast of Makran invited the wrath of Hajjaj by kidnapping and looting passengers on their way to Basra from Lanka, It is more probable that Raja Dahir, the ruler of Sindh, was right in pleading thet the pirates were beyond his jurisdiction and he could not be held responsible for their crimes, Itis also true that, after the, conquest of tit was part of a wave Sindh, no chastisement of the pirates seems to have occurred. The conquest of Sindh proved fo be @ momentous event. Iris not surprising, therefore, that Hajaj bin Yasuf, who is considered a villain by the chroniclers of Islamic history, has been portrayed as hero in Indo-Muslim history. The image of Mohammad bin Qasim, the conqueror, i different. He is tightly regarded as a hero because he was victorious, whereas his two , 2 A CONCISE HI were defeated Kl, hi predecessors, usa and-U 3 fare (such @8 iadeing dots era killed. Mohamma ological wartar a bero. In addition, the in psych boldness in psyo ‘ one = Pi pul) all combined is own people, and his a isonment and execution of im a legend. ‘Mohammad bin Qasim's impr jtten in prison policy exercised by a caliph evocative poem WH rt of a general id I: i " was Pal inder Walid I: Srecation, like his conaues al. All the (0nd re al Atia) pave ea ae Spain) Quteiba bin Mus (indh) were punished by ! and not directed agin © ‘Musa bin Nusayr, Tarig bi

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