No

While Chānakya says धर्मस्य मूलं अर्थ, that was the never the mainstay of Hindu polity

Shruti proclaims unity of rāshTra in spite of fragmented polity

It is the glue of 4-fold varNāshrama-purushārtha dharma that held the civilisation together irrespective of state or polity
There is a reason why Arthashāstra was a neglected political treatise until Brits excavated it out of oblivion. And there was not much memory of Maurya in general public discourse of Hindus.

Stories of vikramāditya or Bhojaraja are still popular. What does it tell us?
I like to call the chāNākyan school of polity as the “left handed polity”. Otherwise known as āpaddharma.

The main reference point of Hindu polity is either mahābhārata and rāmāyaNa (for example) and anushāsana parva of MBH for the theory of political and economic sciences.
The anushāsana parva is the “right handed path” of Hindu polity.

Kings like rāma, yudhishThira, vikramāditya, Bhoja etc among many others (locally cited or on pan Indian) are model kings who act as standards against which others measured the “dhārmik quotient” of their policies
So getting back to point - no. Lack of strong polity in dharma is not the reason why SEAsia converted to Islam.

The central pillar of right handed polity is 4-fold varNāshrama dharma.

Where this is properly entrenched, conversions did not happen on such a large scale.
The limited but very strong state that chāNakya proposes (as put by @sanjeevsanyal ji) was not much to the liking of Hindus.

Hence in spite of defeating everyone in India during ashwamèdha and rājasūya, Yudhishthir was still king of Kuru. Rāma was still the king of Kosala.
We have this example in very recent history. Shivaji Maharaj.

Now it is highly unlikely that Shivaji read kauTilya’s arthashāstra (the book was very obscure then). All his teachings were of the traditional right handed path.

However he ended up creating a chāNākyan state.
Shivaji’s Hindavi svarājya was exactly that - a limited but very powerful centralised state with no other power centers.

What happened to this construct? Within 10-12 years after his death, the third Chhatrapati had to change it and make it decentralised. A confederacy.
So this fascination of “huge empires” etc is distinctly non-Hindu. Hindus understand in current times of crisis, we need to have a strong chāNakyan state (hence 2014 happened)

But the 4-fold varNāshrama-purushārtha dharma is at its nature a decentralizing force.
Knowledge-weapons-money-numerical superiority otherwise known as “jñāna-bala, shastra-bala, dhana-bala and jana-bala” should remain separated.

No one social group should have more than one of these four forces. So they will HAVE TO coexist in a dhārmik framework.
Conversions (on the scale that @harshmadhusudan is talking here) happen (I have neglected the forcible conversions here) when this bond between these four forces of varNāshrama dharma is or has been abused or deteriorated or never existed to a point below a certain threshold.

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Problem is secular progressive libtards among us, cannot dare to speak this to the women they love - just to preserve their libtard image. 😀 Their loss...

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They have this insight.

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But on festive occasions, we do not like people fighting, or pouting or presenting themselves in a manner that we consider "inauspicious". Like not wearing a Bindi on evening of Lakshmi Poojan.. How dumb can one be? 😀
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British accelerated it - is known fact. Their “management” of Duleep Singh is very well documented

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I presumed that this was because the hold of V1 on spiritual matters of all Hindus wasn’t strong enough.
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I (not being a Punjabi myself) have accept that I was wrong and they are telling me things about their influence (historically) on Hindu society at large was strong as any other part of desh.
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There is no one with Brahmana-varNa left in Punjab
There is no one with Kshatriya-varNa left in Bengal

I had written a thread.. Since time of Mahabharat Jayadratha was worried about this, Duryodhan sent 10 K brahmins to Sindh
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Bengal - Brahmins & Kayasthas had to perform the role of Kshatriya (almost all the landlords are from either of these Jaatis)

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Dharma is about balance..

Balance of all four varNas
balance of all four Aashramas
Balance of all four purushaarthas

Skew the balance in favour of any one of these four, society ends up paying a terrible price.
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Sameer Wankhede’s video in mosque counselling Mullahs to use Sharia & Islamic Haram concept to keep Muslims away from narcotics (both as peddlers and addicts)

What he says is intersting : majority of arrested drug peddlers and drug addicts are Muslims

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Their existence is because of whatever goodwill Hindus collectively have towards that entity.
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