It is beyond dispute that one of the characteristics of the Muslim conquest of India was that of a militant propaganda with the purpose of establishing not only Muslim government over the people, but the Muslim faith as well.
Source, in full
quoted in Hardy, P. (1977). Modern European and Muslim Explanations of Conversion to Islam in South Asia: A Preliminary Survey of the Literature. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2, 177–206.