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Article: Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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In this wide-reaching study, Susan Bayly describes the varied historical experience of converts to two west Asian monotheisms, Islam and Christianity, in predominantly Hindu India. She focuses on the two southernmost states, Kerala and Tamilnadu, where significant and varied groups of both religious persuasions make their homes. Among the Tamil Muslim communities Bayly describes in the first half of her book are the elite Sunni Muslim trading families descended from Arab merchants who set up shop on the Tamil coast over a thousand years ago, the non-Tamil-speaking Muslim warrior groups who migrated south when the Mughals overran the Deccani sultanates in the late ...
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