Mountain View
Religious conversion in India : modes, motivations, and meanings / edited by Rowena Robinson, Sathianathan Clarke. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2003. - xv, 420 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modes of conversion to Islam / Rowena Robinson -- Diverting the Ganges : the Nizari Ismaili model of conversion in South Asia / Dominique-Sila Khan -- Trade, conversion, and the growth of the Islamic community in Kerala / Stephen F. Dale -- Who are the Bengal Muslims? : conversion and islamization in Bengal / Richard Eaton -- Arya shuddhi and Muslim tabligh : Muslim reactions to Arya Samaj proselytization (1923-30) / Yoginder Sikand -- Conversions to Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism : past and present / Rowena Robinson -- Conversion to Jainism : historical perspectives / Paul Dundas -- Conversion and Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech -- Conversion in Buddhism? / Torkel Brekke -- B.R. Ambedkar and navayana diksha / Gary Tartakov -- Transformations of caste and tribe / Sathianathan Clarke -- Spectres of conversion : transformations of caste and sect in India / Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee Dube -- Assertion, conversion, and Indian nationalism : Govind's movement among the Bhils / David Hardiman - Conversion to Christianity / Sathianathan Clarke -- Sixteenth century conversion to Christianity in Goa / Rowena Robinson -- Conversion to Christianity in Tamil Nadu : conscious and constitutive community mobilization towards a different symbolic world vision / Sathianathan Clarke -- Christian conversion in the Punjab : what has changed? / John C.B. Webstar -- Christian conversion movements in North East India / Frederick S. Downs.

Contributed articles.

0195663292

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office Rs695.00

2003331470


Conversion--Comparative studies.


India--Religion.

BL639 / .R455 2003

209.54 Rob/Rel

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