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The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760

Richard Maxwell Eaton
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • List of Tables (page xiii)
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration (page xv)
  • Acknowledgments (page xvii)
  • Introduction (page xxi)
  • PART ONE BENGAL UNDER THE SULTANS
    • 1. Before the Turkish Conquest (page 3)
      • Bengal in Prehistory (page 3)
      • Early Indo-Aryan Influence in Bengal (page 6)
      • The Rise of Early Medieval Hindu Culture (page 13)
      • The Diffusion of Bengali Hindu Civilization (page 17)
    • 2. The Articulation of Political Authority (page 22)
      • Perso-Islamic Conceptions of Political Authority, Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries (page 23)
      • A Province of the Delhi Sultanate, 1204-1342 (page 32)
      • The Early Bengal Sultanate, 1342-ca. 1400 (page 40)
      • The Rise of Raja Ganesh (ca. 1400-1421) (page 50)
      • Sultan Jalal al-Din Muhammad (1415-32) and His Political Ideology (page 56)
      • The Indigenization of Royal Authority, 1433-1538 (page 63)
      • Summary (page 69)
    • 3. Early Sufis of the Delta (page 71)
      • The Question of Sufis and Frontier Warfare (page 71)
      • Bengali Sufis and Hindu Thought (page 77)
      • Sufis of the Capital (page 82)
    • 4. Economy, Society, and Culture (page 95)
      • The Political Economy of the Sultanate (page 95)
      • Ashraf and Non-Ashraf Society (page 97)
      • Hindu Society-Responses to the Conquest (page 102)
      • Hindu Religion-the Siva-Sakta Complex (page 103)
      • Hindu Religion-the Vaishnava Complex (page 109)
    • 5. Mass Conversion to Islam: Theories and Protagonists (page 113)
      • Four Conventional Theories of Islamization in India (page 113)
      • Theories of Islamization in Bengal (page 119)
      • The Appearance of a Bengali Muslim Peasantry (page 129)
      • Summary (page 134)
  • PART TWO BENGAL UNDER THE MUGHALS
    • 6. The Rise of Mughal Power (page 137)
      • The Afghan Age, 1537-1612 (page 137)
      • The Early Mughal Experience in Bengal, 1574-1610 (page 142)
      • The Consolidation of Mughal Authority, 1610-1704 (page 150)
      • Summary (page 157)
    • 7. Mughal Culture and Its Diffusion (page 159)
      • The Political Basis of Mughal Culture in Bengal (page 159)
      • The Place of Bengal in Mughal Culture (page 167)
      • The Place of Islam in Mughal Culture (page 174)
      • The Administration of Mughal Law-the Villagers' View (page 179)
      • West Bengal: The Integration of Imperial Authority (page 183)
      • The Northern Frontier: Resistance to Imperial Authority (page 186)
      • East Bengal: Conquest and Culture Change (page 191)
    • 8. Islam and the Agrarian Order in the East (page 194)
      • Riverine Changes and Economic Growth (page 194)
      • Charismatic Pioneers on the Agrarian Frontier (page 207)
      • The Religious Gentry in Bakarganj and Dhaka, 1650-1760 (page 219)
      • Summary (page 226)
    • 9. Mosque and Shrine in the Rural Landscape (page 228)
      • The Mughal State and the Agrarian Order (page 228)
      • The Rural Mosque in Bengali History (page 229)
      • The Growth of Mosques and Shrines in Rural Chittagong, 1666-1760 (page 234)
      • The Rise of Chittagong's Religious Gentry (page 248)
      • The Religious Gentry of Sylhet (page 258)
      • Summary (page 265)
    • 10. The Rooting of Islam in Bengal (page 268)
      • Inclusion (page 270)
      • Identification (page 275)
      • Displacement (page 281)
      • Literacy and Islamization (page 291)
      • Gender and Islamization (page 297)
      • Summary (page 301)
    • 11. Conclusion (page 305)
  • Appendix 1: Mint Towns and Inscription Sites under Muslim Rulers, 1204-1760 (page 317)
  • Appendix 2: Principal Rulers of Bengal, 1204-1757 (page 323)
  • Select Bibliography (page 327)
  • Index (page 343)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 54.3 (Aug. 1995): 866-868 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199508%2954%3A3%3C866%3ATROIAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
IJMES 27.2 (May 1995): 262-264 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7438%28199505%2927%3A2%3C262%3ATROIAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
JAOS 115.2 (Apr.-Jun. 1995): 341-342 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28199504%2F06%29115%3A2%3C341%3ATROIAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
AHR 100.1 (Feb. 1995): 213-124 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199502%29100%3A1%3C213%3ATROIAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
BSOAS 58.2 (1995): 396-397 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281995%2958%3A2%3C396%3ATROIAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
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Published: c1993
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520080775 (hardcover)
  • 9780520917774 (ebook)
  • 9780520205079 (paper)
Series
  • ATLA Special Series
Subject
  • Islamic Studies
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