Approximate date
After the bloody war of Kalinga, the Maurya emperor Ashoka turns to Buddhism and carves edicts urging mercy across India.
How it touches Islam Islam reached Sindh in 711, and India later became home to one of the largest Muslim populations on earth.
Ashoka
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