The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies

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

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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.

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 su

GENRE
Religion & Spirituality
RELEASED
2023
July 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
388
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of California Press
SELLER
University of California Press
SIZE
22.1
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