The Political History of Muslim Bengal: An Unfinished Battle of FaithBangladesh, the eastern half of earth’s largest delta, Bengal, is today an independent country of 163 million people. Among the 98% ethnic Bengali population, above 90 percent practice Islam. Surprisingly, Buddhism was the predominant religion of the region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium. In the midst of a long and fierce Brahman-Buddhist conflict, political Islam arrived in Bengal in the very early 13th century. Against the background of the above history, this book tells the story of successive religious and political transformations, touching upon the sensitive subject of Bengali Muslim identity. Encompassing a period of more than a millennium, it narrates a political history beginning with the independent Muslim Sultanate and closing with the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh. The book concludes by discussing the present day, here termed “Authoritarian Secularism”. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Chapter Two | 32 |
Chapter Three | 70 |
Chapter Four | 102 |
Chapter Five | 144 |
Chapter Six | 173 |
Chapter Seven | 213 |
Chapter Eight | 248 |
Chapter Twelve | 330 |
Epilogue | 356 |
Appendix A | 360 |
Appendix B | 362 |
Appendix C | 365 |
Appendix D | 368 |
Appendix E | 370 |
Appendix F | 380 |
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The Political History of Muslim Bengal: An Unfinished Battle of Faith Rahmudur Rahman No preview available - 2019 |
The Political History of Muslim Bengal: An Unfinished Battle of Faith Mahmudur Rahman No preview available - 2021 |
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