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Although there were mass conversions, the country was too vast, the invaders too few, and the volume of immigration too small to change the social complex… India, therefore, never became a Muslim nation, but remained simply a Hindu country in which Muslims were numerous.

— Kingsley Davis K.S. Lal, Indian Muslims, who are they (2012)

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As far back as the 3rd or 4th millennium B.C. and probably much earlier still, India was in possession of a highly developed civilization with large and populous cities.

So in India some three to seven thousand years ago there were peoples possessing a technology sufficiently advanced to support a dense population.

In six decades (1881-1941)… at no census have the Muslims failed to improve their percentage and the Hindus failed to lose…” [It is due not only to the] “proportion of Muslim women married, but those who are married also have a higher fertility.”

K.S. Lal, Indian Muslims, who are they (2012)

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