Description
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: Richard M. Eaton
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 07/31/1996
Pages: 388
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.48w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9780520205079
ISBN10: 0520205073
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | History
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- History | Asia | South | General
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: Richard M. Eaton
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 07/31/1996
Pages: 388
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.48w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9780520205079
ISBN10: 0520205073
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | History
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- History | Asia | South | General
About the Author
Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and the author of several groundbreaking books on India before 1800.