Saints, Goddesses and Kings - Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900 (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge South Asian Studies
Release date:	1990
First published:	1989
Authors:	Susan Bayly
Dimensions:	223 x 143 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	532
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-37201-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-521-37201-1
Barcode:	9780521372015

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