14322
Seminar
WiSe 12/13: Islam in Eastern India: Religion, Society and Politics in Bengal, 1200-1947
Information for students
Comments
This course module will examine:
a) the expansion of Islam in the deltaic plains of Bengal from the 13th to the 18th century; and
b) the development of a Bengali Muslim identity in the politico-intellectual circles of 19th and 20th century Bengal, a time characterised by competing religious nationalist forces in South Asia.
Drawing upon a range of primary (in translations) and secondary source materials, this module will help students better appreciate processes of Islamisation in pre-modern South Asia, their social, cultural and environmental dimension, the politics of identity in the 19th-20th century, and not least the key conceptual and historiographical issues that have generally informed, and are centrally important to, scholarship on Islamicate South Asia. close
Suggested reading
Rafiuddin Ahmed, The Bengal Muslims, 1871-1906: A Quest for Identity (Delhi, 1996 edition)
Rafiuddin Ahmed (ed.), Understanding the Bengal Muslims: Interpretative Essays (Delhi, 2001).
Richard Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 (Berkeley, 1993)
Asim Roy, The Islamic Syncretistic Traditions in Bengal (Princeton, 1983) close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2012-10-16 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-10-23 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-10-30 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-06 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-13 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-20 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-27 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-04 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-11 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-18 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-08 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-15 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-22 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-29 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-02-05 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-02-12 16:00 - 18:00