This was the period when important changes occurred in different religions. People started travelling for survival, for new agricultural land or for trade and they bought their practices with them.

This was the period that important changes occurred in Hinduism. Like worship of new deities, the construction of temples by royalty and the growing importance of Brahmanas.

Emergence of the idea of bhakti was the one of the major developments during this period.

This was also the period when new religions appeared in the subcontinent. Merchants and migrants first brought the teachings of the holy Quran to India in the seventh century.