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

By:

Richard M. Eaton

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies

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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.

Author Biography:

Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the author of The Sufis of Bijapur (1978).

Release date Australia

July 31st, 1996

Author

Richard M. Eaton

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

388

Series

Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9780520205079

Product ID

7578471

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