Today, there are over 500 million Muslims throughout the Indian
subcontinent (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), making it one of the
largest population centers of Muslims in the world. Since Islam first
entered India, it has contributed greatly to the area and its people.
Today, numerous theories about how India came to be such a largely
Muslim land exist. Politically, some (such as the Hindutva movement in
India) try to make Islam seem foriegn to India, by insisting it only
exists because of invasions by Arab and Persian Muslims. The truth,
however, is far from that.