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Saints, Goddesses and Kings - Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900 (Hardcover, New)
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Saints, Goddesses and Kings - Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge South Asian Studies
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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 architectural 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.
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