The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 /
In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Ri...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1993.
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| Series: | Comparative studies on Muslim societies ;
17. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5233026 |
| Summary: | In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations.Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 359 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520917774 0520917774 0585112630 9780585112633 0520205073 9780520205079 9780520080775 0520080777 |