{"product_id":"saints-goddesses-and-kings-muslims-and-christians-in-south-indian-society-1700-1900-hardback-9780521372015","title":"Saints, Goddesses and Kings; Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700–1900 (Hardback) 9780521372015","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSaints, Goddesses and Kings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMuslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700–1900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaints, Goddesses and Kings illumines the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Bayly (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521372015, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 January 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e532 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.3 x 4.3 cm, 0.966 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book breaks new ground in understanding the history of Christianity in India.  Bayly's perspective, insights, and conclusions are of great importance.\"   John C. B. Webster, Church History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSouth 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of maps\u003cbr\u003e Note on transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1.  South Indian religion and society\u003cbr\u003e 2. The development of Muslim society in Tamilnad\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Muslim religious tradition in south India\u003cbr\u003e 4. The south Indian state and the creation of Muslim community\u003cbr\u003e 5. Warrior martyr pirs in the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 6. The final period of nawabi rule in the Carnatic\u003cbr\u003e 7. South Indian Christians in the pre-colonial period\u003cbr\u003e 8. The collapse of Syrian Christian 'integration'\u003cbr\u003e 9.  The Christian Paravas of southern Tamilnad\u003cbr\u003e 10. Christian saints and gurus in the poligar country\u003cbr\u003e 11. Christianity and colonial rule in the Tamil hinterland\u003cbr\u003e 12. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007146873112,"sku":"9780521372015","price":118.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521372015i_a20da250-ecb5-4be7-b225-7c9441c5753c.jpg?v=1691375974","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/saints-goddesses-and-kings-muslims-and-christians-in-south-indian-society-1700-1900-hardback-9780521372015","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}