Explanation:

• Chalukyas
• The Arab armies had overrun Persia and had forcibly converted large numbers of Zoroastrians.
• Many, however, in the early eighth century fled by sea and by the coastal route from Persia to western India, where they settled after having been given asylum by the Chalukyas, and took to trade and were the founders of a community later known as Parsis, after the land of their origin, Persia.