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245 0 _aReligious conversion in India: modes, motivations, and meanings/
_cedited by Rowena Robinson and Sathianathan Clarke
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2003.
300 _axv, 420 p. ;
_c23 cm.
505 _aModes 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.
650 _aConversion
650 _aReligion
700 _aRobinson, Rowena, ed.
700 _aClarke, Sathianathan, ed.
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