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The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760: Volume 17

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760: Volume 17

Eaton, Richard M.

Paperback

Series: Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, Book 17

IslamIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0520205073
ISBN13: 9780520205079
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jul 31 1996
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.48 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
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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