Essays on Islam and Indian history / Richard M. Eaton.

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Islamic history as world history -- Comparative history as world history: religious conversion in modern India -- Multiple lenses: differing perspectives of fifteenth-century Calicut -- Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states -- (Re)imag(in)ing other²ness: a postmortem for the postmodern in India -- The articulation of Islamic space in the medieval Deccan -- Historical introduction to Firuzabad, palace city of the Deccan -- Sufi folk literature and the expansion of Indian Islam -- The political and religious authority of the shrine of Bābā Farīd -- Court of man, court of God: local perceptions of the shrine of Bābā Farīd, Pakpattan, Punjab -- Who are the Bengal Muslims? Conversion and Islamization in Bengal.