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Historical region in North-western South Asia
A view of
Mohenjo-daro , an archaeological site in modern
Sindh, Pakistan dating back to the
Indus Valley Civilisation .
Northwest India was a
historical region , geographically located on the north-western
Indian subcontinent . It predominantly constitutes what are now parts of the present-day
South Asian republics of
India and
Pakistan (specifically modern
north-western India and eastern Pakistan) after the 1947
Partition of British India .
[1]
[2]
The region encompassed the modern
Pakistan and the territory of the modern India approximately to the west of the
77th meridian east and north of the
24th parallel north .
[3]
History
The
Indus Valley Civilisation formed in the northwestern subcontinent over 4000 years ago, with climate change potentially having caused its later decline.
[4]
Northwest India was a hub of
Buddhism in ancient times,
[5]
[6] and was the region from which Buddhism reached China by
travelling through Central Asia .
The
Umayyad Caliphate conquered
Sindh in the 8th century CE,
[7] marking the beginning of what was to become a major
Islamic presence in the region.
[8]
See also
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Places adjacent to Northwest India (pre-1947)