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Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700 1900

Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700 1900

Bayly, Susan

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Series: Cambridge South Asian Studies, Book 43

IslamGeneral ChristianityIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0521891035
ISBN13: 9780521891035
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 22 2004
Pages: 532
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.29 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great world religions have interacted in the region over many centuries. This book uses a powerful combination of oral, literary, and architectural evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the religion and culture of the wider society. The author shows how Christianity and Islam spread along the military and agricultural frontiers of southern India, and how certain beliefs and practices derived local force from an ambiguous relationship with the worship of existing Hindu goddesses. The book illuminates not only the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community, but wider processes of social and political change within the sub-continent and colonial societies in general.

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