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: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1993], ©1993
Berkeley : c1993 Berkeley : ©1993 Berkeley : [1993] |
| Series: | Comparative studies on Muslim societies ;
17 Comparative studies on Muslim societies 17 Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 17 |
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| 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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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 359 p xxvii, 359 p. : ill, maps. : 24 cm xxvii, 359 p. : ill. ; 23 cm xxvii, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xxvii, 359 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm xxvii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm xxvii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm xxvii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-341) and index Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-359) Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-341) and index Includes bibliographical references (p.327-341) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0520080777 (alk. paper) 0520080777 0520205073 9780520080775 (alk. paper) 9780520080775 9780520205079 |