Foreign Invasions on India in Medieval Times - Causes, Events and their Impact

[prashantacmet]

Don't know about Rajpal ji, but I would agree with you. The call for Jihad gave their military campaigns a religious legitimacy and possibly swelled their ranks with recruits. The real reasons was always loot. Central Asia, from most of these (apart from Qasim) came, had a long history and prevalent culture of invasions for looting.

Ok..so that proves that the all of these invaders mustered army at the name of religion quite easily and motivated them to invade kaafir for the sake of "Islam". It fulfilled two purposes "plundering the wealth" and "slaying kaafirs to spread terror of Islam" .... . Even if these invaders were not religious freak ,the army was religious freak and quite enthusiastic in plundering and slaying of the "kaafirs", Venomous Islam!

So if plundering was the main purpose , religious purpose was also not far behind!