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The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

By Richard M. Eaton

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520917774
DOI
10.1525/9780520917774
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22072112 bytes)
Series
Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies; 17
Edition
Reprint 2019
Pages
388\385
Time added
2023-09-08 03:57:29

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.

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