Islam first arrived in India through Arab merchants in the very first century of Islam’s rise in Arabia. Focusing on the arrival and growth of Islam in South Asia and the important socio-political changes it brought. This book examines the identity and lives of the converts to Islam, their reasons for conversion and the role performed by modern reformers who initiated modernist trends in order to enlighten Indian Muslims. This book will help scholars reconstruct the social and intellectual history of the different communities of South Asia.