anchor: For nearly 300 years, Islamic conquest in India was confined to this trading community in Sind, but in the tenth century, tribesmen from Turkistan, driven west by Chinese expansion, set up a state at Ghazni and began raids across the border to plunder Hindu temples.
positive: The Chinese forced tribesmen from Turkistan to the west, who later began plundering Hindu temples.
negative: Islamic conquest in India never took off, failing spectacularly in the tribesmen's defeat at Ghazni.