The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 / Richard M. Eaton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eaton, Richard Maxwell, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; Volume 17.

Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 17

Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies Series ; Volume 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--India--Bengal--History.

Islam.

Bengal (India)--History.

Bengal (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 359 p. ) ill, maps. : ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Before the Turkish Conquest

2. The Articulation of Political Authority

3. Early Sufis of the Delta

4. Economy, Society, and Culture

5. Mass Conversion to Islam: Theories and Protagonists

6. The Rise of Mughal Power

7. Mughal Culture and Its Diffusion

8. Islam and the Agrarian Order in the East

9. Mosque and Shrine in the Rural Landscape

10. The Rooting of Islam in Bengal

11. Conclusion

APPENDIX 1. Mint Towns and Inscription Sites under Muslim Rulers, 1204-1760

APPENDIX 2. Principal Muslim Rulers of Bengal

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585112633

0585112630

9780520917774

0520917774

OCLC:

1149473319