TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eaton, Richard M.
TI  - The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760
SN  - 0195641736
U1  - 954.1402 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - History
KW  - Bengal (India)
KW  - Cultural Landscape
KW  - Religious Influence on Bengal
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic and Indic Civilizations
KW  - Indo-Islamic Community
N1  - 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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