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Title: SAINTS, GODDESSES AND KINGS
MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN SOUTH INDIAN SOCIETY, 1700-1900
By: Susan Bayly
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521891035
ISBN 13: 9780521891035
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 18 November, 2003
Series: Cambridge South Asian Studies No.43
Pages: 532
Description: Saints, Goddesses and Kings illumines the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community.
Synopsis: South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings uses a powerful combination of oral, literary and archival evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the religion and culture of the wider society. Susan Bayly shows how Christianity and Islam spread along the military and agricultural frontiers of southern India, and how certain beliefs and practices derived local force from an ambiguous relationship with the worship of existing Hindu goddesses. Saints, Goddesses and Kings thus illumines not only the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community, but wider processes of social and political change within the sub-continent and, indeed, colonial societies in general.
Illustrations: maps, notes, glossary, bibliography
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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