Religious conversion in India
Subtitle: modes, motivations, and meanings
By: edited by Rowena Robinson, Sathianathan Clarke.
Contributors: Robinson, Rowena, 1967-; Clarke, Sathianathan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Conversion -- Comparative studies.; India -- Religion.
Genres: Comparative studies.
Description: Contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modes of conversion to Islam / Rowena Robinson; title: Diverting the Ganges : the Nizari Ismaili model of conversion in South Asia / Dominique-Sila Khan; title: Trade, conversion, and the growth of the Islamic community in Kerala / Stephen F. Dale; title: Who are the Bengal Muslims? : conversion and islamization in Bengal / Richard Eaton; title: Arya shuddhi and Muslim tabligh : Muslim reactions to Arya Samaj proselytization (1923-30) / Yoginder Sikand; title: Conversions to Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism : past and present / Rowena Robinson; title: Conversion to Jainism : historical perspectives / Paul Dundas; title: Conversion and Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech; title: Conversion in Buddhism? / Torkel Brekke; title: B.R. Ambedkar and navayana diksha / Gary Tartakov; title: Transformations of caste and tribe / Sathianathan Clarke; title: Spectres of conversion : transformations of caste and sect in India / Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee Dube; title: Assertion, conversion, and Indian nationalism : Govind's movement among the Bhils / David Hardiman -; title: - Conversion to Christianity / Sathianathan Clarke; title: Sixteenth century conversion to Christianity in Goa / Rowena Robinson; title: Conversion to Christianity in Tamil Nadu : conscious and constitutive community mobilization towards a different symbolic world vision / Sathianathan Clarke; title: Christian conversion in the Punjab : what has changed? / John C.B. Webstar; title: Christian conversion movements in North East India / Frederick S. Downs.