SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Most historians now agree that India’s introduction to Islam was through Arab traders and not Muslim invaders, as is generally believed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Islam arrived in the inland of Indian subcontinent in the 7th century when the Arabs conquered Sindh and later arrived in Punjab and North India in the 12th century via the Ghaznavids and Ghurids conquest and has since become a part of India’s religious and cultural heritage.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first successful voyage to India was by Vasco da Gama in 1498, when after sailing around the Cape of good hope he arrived in Calicut now in Kerala. Having arrived there, he obtained from Saamoothiri Rajah permission to trade in the city.