WI the Caliphate went east and conquered India instead of North Africa?

So somehow the Byzantines don't go to war against the Caliphate, thus the Caliphate focuses eastwards conquering India after Persia and so forth until the entire Indian ocean is their pond, how does this effect the world?
 
They did both. The Umayyads simultaneously invaded the Indus Valley, North Africa, Iberia, Italian islands, Anatolia, Greek islands, Central Asia, Khazaria, etc....
 
They did both. The Umayyads simultaneously invaded the Indus Valley, North Africa, Iberia, Italian islands, Anatolia, Greek islands, Central Asia, Khazaria, etc....

I think the OP means for them to conquer all of India.

My reply to that is that it's impossible for the Caliphate to conquer India. IOTL, they invaded India right after the sudden collapse of Harsha's empire, when India was in disarray and ripe for conquest. Yet, they were only able to conquer Sindh; the rest of India was Islamicized by the Turks. Presumably, you could have the Caliphate conquer the Punjab region, Gujarat, and Rajasthan if everything goes right for them, but not much more than that.
 
As fijihr already said, the Caliphate (Ummyads or Abbasids) could never conquer the whole of India. Even when Islam reached India the Indian Hindu population and majority rejected Islam. I think the same thing would happen either way, even if the Caliphate did conquer India it would be a failure. Likely even leading to a revolution.
 
India was not on the priority list. Constantinople and Rome where the goals and conquering North Africa was part of achieving these goals.
 
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