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? 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
Print Book, English, ©1993
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1993
History
xxvii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780520080775, 9780520205079, 9780585112633, 0520080777, 0520205073, 0585112630
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PART ONE: BENGAL UNDER THE SULTANS: Before the Turkish conquest
The articulation of political authority
Early Surfis of the Delta
Economy, society, and culture
Mass conversion to Islam: theories and protagonists
PART TWO: BENGAL UNDER THE MUGHALS: The rise of Mughal power
Mughal culture and its diffusion
Islam and the agrarian order in the East
Mosque and shrine in the rural landscape
The rooting of Islam in Bengal
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Mint towns and inscription sites under Muslim rulers, 1204-1760
Appendix 2: Principal rulers of Bengal, 1204-1757
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