What prevented India/China from being Christianized or Islamicized?

[Blue3]

What prevented India/China from being Christianized or Islamicized, unlike most of the world?

[Blue3]

Having entrenched political bodies against such a change that could meaningfully defend their turf for centuries.

I don't think so. India was ruled by the Muslim Mughal Emperors for centuries. And the Chinese dynasties weren't always strong, and their native religions weren't evangelical religions themselves.

[Blue3]

Having entrenched political bodies against such a change that could meaningfully defend their turf for centuries.

I don't think so. India was ruled by the Muslim Mughal Emperors for centuries. And the Chinese dynasties weren't always strong, and their native religions weren't evangelical religions themselves.

The local Hindu leaders managed to have autonomy and due to their numbers and the diversity of religious thought survive these centuries while resisting the central government. Same in China.

And this just didn't exist anywhere else in the world, that was Christianized/Islamicized?

[Blue3]

Tell me you know nothing of the history of India without telling me that you know nothing of the history of India.

I've lived in India.

It obviously has Muslim influences (and to some extent Christian influences, especially in Goa).

But India was not Islamicized/Christianized in the same way Europe/Americas/Russia/Australia/NorthAfrica/MiddleEast were.

[Blue3]

I and this thread is asking you this question

To which I responded with a rhetorical question, because this is very much in the territory of 'extremely basic knowledge'. There are approximately half a billion Muslims living in the Subcontinent, incidentally; about a third of all Muslims on Earth.

And yet India is not Islamicized. Why?

[Blue3]

It’s rather self-explanatory, but I’ll explain to make it clearer for you. The majority of India did not convert to Islam, it was just localized mostly to the parts that became Pakistan and Bangladesh. Not even close to the entire country. Why wasn’t India “Islamicized” like Iran/Persia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Central Asia, North Africa, etc?