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Religious conversion in India : modes, motivations, and meanings / - Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007, 2004, ©2003 - xv, 420 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Modes of conversion to Islam / Rowena Robinson -- Diverting the Ganges: the Nizari Ismaili model of converstion 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 the Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech -- Conversion in Buddhism? / Torkel Brekke -- B. R. Ambedkar and the 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 conversions 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. Webster -- Christian conversion movements in north east India / Frederick S. Downs

ISBN: 0195663292 0195689046 (pbk) 9780195689044

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA3-Y2872

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conversion--Comparative studies

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Religion.
India--Religious life and customs.

Dewey Class. No.: 291.42 R658R