Del 17 - Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies

Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-07-31
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieComparative Studies on Muslim Societies
Antal sidor388
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520205079

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List of IllustrationsList of TablesNote on Translation and TransliterationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART ONE BENGAL UNDER THE SULTANS1. Before the Turkish ConquestBengal in PrehistoryEarly Indo-Aryan Influence in BengalThe Rise of Early Medieval Hindu CultureThe Diffusion of Bengali Hindu Civilization2. The Articulation of Political AuthorityPerso-Islamic Conceptions of Political Authority,Eleventh-Thirteenth CenturiesA Province of the Delhi Sultanate, 1204-1342The Early Bengal Sultanate, 1342-ca. 1400The Rise of Raja Ganesh (ca. 1400-1421)Sultan ]alai al-Din Muhammad (1415-32) and His PoliticalIdeologyThe Indigenization of Royal Authority, 1433-1538Summary3. Early Sufis of the DeltaThe Question of Sufis and Front-ier WarfareBengali Sufis and Hindu ThoughtSufis of the Capital4. Economy, Society, and CultureThe Political Economy of the SultanateAshraf and Non-Ashraf SocietyHindu Society- Responses to the ConquestHindu Religion- the Siva-Siilcta ComplexHindu Religion- the Vaishnava Complex5. Mass Conversion to Islam: Theories and ProtagonistsFour Conventional Theories of Islamization in IndiaTheories of Islamization in BengalThe Appearance of a Bengali Muslim PeasantrySummaryPART TWO BENGAL UNDER THE MUGHALS6. The Rise of Mughal PowerThe Afghan Age, 1537-1612The Early Mughal Experience in Bengal, 1574-1610The Consolidation of Mughal Authority, 1610-1704Summary7· Mughal Culture and Its DiffusionThe Political Basis of Mughal Culture in BengalThe Place of Bengal in Mughal CultureThe Place of Islam in Mughal CultureThe Administration of Mughal LawtheVillagers' ViewWest Bengal: The Integration of Imperial AuthorityThe Northern Frontier: Resistance to Imperial AuthorityEast Bengal: Conquest and Culture Change8. Islam and the Agrarian Order in the EastRiverine Changes and Economic GrowthCharismatic Pioneers on the Agrarian FrontierThe Religious Gentry in Bakarganj andDhaka, 1650-1760Summary9· Mosque and Shrine in the Rural LandscapeThe Mughal State and the Agrarian OrderThe Rural Mosque in Bengali HistoryThe Growth of Mosques and Shrines in Rural Chittagong,1666-1760The Rise of Chittagong's Religious GentryThe Religious Gentry of SylhetSummary10. The Rooting of Islam in BengalInclusionIdentificationDisplacementLiteracy and IslamizationGender and IslamizationSummary11. ConclusionAppendix 1: Mint Towns and Inscription Sites under MuslimRulers, 1204-1760Appendix 2: Principal Rulers of Bengal, 1204-1757Select BibliographyIndex