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Fair point , but those ancestral links to Mughals are films at best they don’t even speak their language.I am not sure it is a great point. It is a lot more complex than that.
Many of these Muslim dynasties that went to India fought, lived and died there. Several of these rulers and their soldiers had intermarriages with the locals. Which means a huge chunk of the 200 million indian muslims today would be descendants of these various invading dynasties. There's a heritage link.
For Christians, the story is different. The British and Potuguese rulers kept to themselves, they exploited the local resources and market conditions and sent them back to Europe. They eventually returned to their countries after service. So christians in India today don't have any ancestral links with their European colonisers.