| The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760: Volume 17 Contributor(s): Eaton, Richard M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520205073 ISBN-13: 9780520205079 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $33.61 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 Annotation: Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - History - Social Science | Islamic Studies - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 954.14 |
| LCCN: 92034002 |
| Series: Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.48" W x 8.54" (1.29 lbs) 388 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Islamic - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |