25 Facts About Hindu Kush

Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.

Hindu Kush range region was a historically significant center of Buddhism, with sites such as the Bamiyan Buddhas.

The Hindu Kush range has been the passageway during the invasions of the Indian subcontinent, and continues to be important to contemporary warfare in Afghanistan.

Hindu Kush is generally translated as "Killer of Hindus" or "Hindu-Killer" by most writers.

Some 19th-century encyclopedias and gazetteers state that the term Hindu Kush originally applied only to the peak in the area of the Kushan Pass, which had become a center of the Kushan Empire by the first century.

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Hindu Kush are a part of the "young Eurasian mountain range consisting of metamorphic rocks such as schist, gneiss and marble, as well as of intrusives such as granite, diorite of different age and size".

Hindu Kush range remains geologically active and is still rising; it is prone to earthquakes.

The Hindu Kush range was a major center of Buddhism with sites such as the Bamiyan Buddhas.

The southeastern valleys of Hindu Kush connecting towards the Indus Valley region were a major center that hosted monasteries, religious scholars from distant lands, trade networks and merchants of the ancient Indian subcontinent.

Richard Bulliet proposes that the area north of Hindu Kush was center of a new sect that had spread as far as Kurdistan, remaining in existence until the Abbasid times.

Hindu Kush moved towards the Indus Valley river region in the Indian subcontinent in 327 BCE, his armies building several towns in this region over the intervening two years.

Subcontinent and valleys of the Hindu Kush remained unconquered by the Islamic armies until the 9th century, even though they had conquered the southern regions of the Indus River valley such as Sind.

Hindu Kush began a military campaign that rapidly brought both sides of the Hindu Kush range under his rule.

Hindu Kush retracted each time, only extending Islamic rule into western Punjab.

Hindu Kush stayed for some time in the Hindu Kush region, particularly near Kabul.

Hindu Kush was influential in seeding the Delhi Sultanate, shifting the base of his Sultanate from south of the Hindu Kush range and Ghazni towards the Yamuna River and Delhi.

Hindu Kush thus helped bring Islamic rule to the northern plains of the Indian subcontinent.

The mountain passes of the Hindu Kush range were used by Timur and his army and they crossed to launch the 1398 invasion of the northern Indian subcontinent.

Hindu Kush arrived in the capital Delhi where his army looted and killed its residents.

Hindu Kush first established himself and his army in Kabul and the Hindu Kush region.

The Hindu Kush mountain passes connected the slave markets of Central Asia with slaves seized in South Asia.

However, the interaction between Central Asia and South Asia through the Hindu Kush was not limited to slavery, it included trading in food, goods, horses and weapons.

The isolated communities in the Hindu Kush were one of the targets of these slave-hunting expeditions.

Hindu Kush served as a geographical barrier to the British Empire, leading to a paucity of information and scarce direct interaction between the British colonial officials and Central Asian peoples.

Pre-Islamic populations of the Hindu Kush included Shins, Yeshkuns, Chiliss, Neemchas Koli, Palus, Gaware, and Krammins.

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