The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
Richard M. Eaton
Discover how and why Bengal became the region most receptive to the Islamic faith in all of South Asia. Through archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents, Richard Eaton traces the encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations from 1204 to 1760. Explore the religious conversion process and the agrarian growth that occurred during this period, and uncover the factors that contributed to the emergence of the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population in this region.
Publish Date
1996-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
1996-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1993
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4.46
ISBN
9780520205079
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2019-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, for which Eaton had to learn Bangla in addition to the Urdu and Persian he was already a master of. The book asks the question; why did the most successful mass conversions to Islam take place so far away from the epicentre of Mughal/Muslim power in North India? For a full answer read the book; suffice it to say here that agricultural colonisation and Sufi preachers both had major roles to play in the process. – source