<span>Relations between Hindus and Muslims were largely based upon trade until around 900AD when outlying Hindu communities began converting to Islam. This precipitated some armed conflict and struggles for territory on the sub-continent. Much of Islam's spread was made possible through Sufism, a sort of hybrid of Islam and Hinduism. Integration occurred under British Colonial Rule, and both Hindus and Muslims banded together to resist the British. Things changed when the British partitioned India based upon religious demographics - creating Pakistan, Kashmir, and creating conflict between the groups that persists to this day.
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In general, a major result of more farms becoming mechanized was that "farm workers became rural entrepreneurs, although it should be noted that this was not universal.
