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[chottala.com] The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760

 
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The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760

Richard M. Eaton

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley · Los Angeles · London
© 1993
 
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760
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    Acknowledgments
  collapse section Introduction
  • Notes

  collapse section 1. Bengal under the Sultans
  collapse section 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
  • Notes
  collapse section 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 (1415–32) and His Political Ideology
  • The Indigenization of Royal Authority, 1433–1538
  • Summary
  • Notes
  collapse section 3. Early Sufis of the Delta
  • The Question of Sufis and Frontier Warfare
  • Bengali Sufis and Hindu Thought
  • Sufis of the Capital
  • Notes
  collapse section 4. Economy, Society, and Culture
  • The Political Economy of the Sultanate
  • Ashrāf and Non-Ashrāf Society
  • Hindu Society—Responses to the Conquest
  • Hindu Religion—the Śiva-Śākta Complex
  • Hindu Religion—the Vaishnava Complex
  • Notes
  collapse section 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
  • Summary
  • Notes

  collapse section 2. Bengal under the Mughals
  collapse section 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
  • Summary
  • Notes
  collapse section 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
  • Notes
  collapse section 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
  • Summary
  • Notes
  collapse section 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
  • Summary
  • Notes
  collapse section 10. The Rooting of Islam in Bengal
  • Inclusion
  • Identification
  • Displacement
  • Literacy and Islamization
  • Gender and Islamization
  • Summary
  • Notes
  collapse section 11. Conclusion
  • Notes

    1. Mint Towns and Inscription Sites under Muslim Rulers, 1204–1760
    2. Principal Muslim Rulers of Bengal
  collapse section Select Bibliography
  collapse section Primary Sources
  • Persian or Arabic
  • Bengali or Sanskrit
  • Chinese
  • European
  • Secondary Sources
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