The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 /
Richard M. Eaton
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- xxvii, 359 p.: ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART ONE BENGAL UNDER THE SULTANS 1. Before the Turkish Conquest-- Bengal in Prehistory -- Early Indo-Aryan Influence in Bengal -- The Rise of Early Medieval Hindu Culture -- The Diffusion of Bengali Hindu Civilization. 2. The Articulation of Political Authority Perso-Islamic Conceptions of Political Authority, Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries -- A Province of the Delhi Sultanate, 1204-1342 -- The Early Bengal Sultanate, 1342-ca. 1400 -- The Rise of Raja Ganesh (ca. 1400-1421) -- Sultan Jalal al-Din Muhammad (1413-32) and His Political Ideology -- The Indigenization of Royal Authority, 1433-1338. 3. Early Sufis of the Delta The Question of Sufis and Frontier Warfare -- Bengali Sufis and Hindu Thought -- Sufis of the Capital. 4- Economy, Society, and Culture The Political Economy of the Sultanate -- Ashraf and Non-Ashraf Society -- Hindu Society— Responses to the Conquest -- Hindu Religion —the Siva-Sakta Complex -- Hindu Religion —the Vaishnava Complex. 5. Mass Conversion to Islam: Theories and Protagonists Four Conventional Theories of Islamization in India -- Theories of Islamization in Bengal -- The Appearance of a Bengali Muslim Peasantry.
PART TWO BENGAL UNDER THE MUGHALS 6. The Rise of Mughal Power The Afghan Age,1537-1612 -- The Early Mughal Experience in Bengal, 1574-1610 -- The Consolidation of Mughal Authority, 1610-1704. 7. Mughal Culture and Its Diffusion The Political Basis of Mughal Culture in Bengal -- The Place of Bengal in Mughal Culture -- The Place of Islam in Mughal Culture -- The Administration of Mughal Law —the Villagers' View -- West Bengal: The Integration of Imperial Authority -- The Northern Frontier: Resistance to Imperial Authority -- East Bengal: Conquest and Culture Change. 8. Islam and the Agrarian Order in the East Riverine Changes and Economic Growth -- Charismatic Pioneers on the Agrarian Frontier -- The Religious Gentry in Bakarganj and Dhaka, 1650-1760. 9. Mosque and Shrine in the Rural Landscape The Mughal State and the Agrarian Order -- The Rural Mosque in Bengali History -- The Growth of Mosques and Shrines in Rural Chittagong, 1666-1760 -- The Rise of Chittagong's Religious Gentry -- The Religious Gentry of Sylhet. 10. The Rooting of Islam in Bengal Inclusion -- Identification -- Displacement -- Literacy and Islamization -- Gender and Islamization.
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History--Bengal (India) Cultural Landscape--Bengal (India) Religious Influence on Bengal--Islam Islamic and Indic Civilizations--Indo-Islamic Community--History