ISLAM IN INDIA

Islam is after the Hinduism the second largest religious direction in India.In India today live about 110 – 120 million muslims. Important centres of the Muslims are Delhi, Agra and Lucknow.To of the development of India the Moslems have contributed mostly. If they had not been India would not be like one it today knows.On the world there are over 1,2 billion muslims.The history of the indian muslims begone with the arabien captue.Mohammed Ali Jinnah was chosen in 1916 the president of the Moslem's league in British controlled India.During the negotiations with the Britons about the independence of India he put through in 1947 the division of the Indian subcontinent in India predominantly inhabited by Hindus and the Moslem state Pakistan in the Indus valley and the way mouth. In the course of the division left more than 4 million Muslims today's India, while approx. 7 million Hindus and Sikh left the state area of Pakistan. One supposes that with acts of violence and by the strain during the escape up to 750,000 people lost her life. More than 600 years Muslim dynasties governed India, first as a ruler of the sultanate of Delhi, later than emperor of the Mogul empire. At the beginning of the British supremacy the last Mogul emperor Bahadur Schah II was edged out. He was set down formally after the Indian uprising in 1857/58, before the British queen Viktoria was proclaimed in 1877 also to the empress of India. While the temporarily Muslim rule existed beside Hindus empires, it united in the times of her biggest expansion almost the whole subcontinent. Particularly the reign of the Mogul emperors Akbar and Aurangzeb is looked as a climax. Above all under Akbar the arts also reached a period of bloom for which, among the rest, the known miniature painting stands. Famous architecture monuments like the Taj Mahal in Agra, a tomb for a Mogul princess, are marked Islamic.

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