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028			_a: Raghav Books Private Limited _b: 2/25, First Floor Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: 2659 _d: 8/5/2026
082			_a954.8 BAY
100			_a Bayly, Susan.
245			_aSaints, Goddesses and Kings _b: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700–1900. _c/ Susan Bayly.
260			_aCambridge _b: Cambridge University Press _c , 1989.
300			_a504p. _c: 16cm.
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520			_aSouth India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings uses a powerful combination of oral, literary and archival evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims, while retaining powerful links with the religion and culture of the wider society. Susan Bayly shows how Christianity and Islam spread along the military and agricultural frontiers of southern India, and how certain beliefs and practices derived local force from an ambiguous relationship with the worship of existing Hindu goddesses. Saints, Goddesses and Kings thus illumines not only the meaning and history of religious conversion and the nature of community, but wider processes of social and political change within the sub-continent and, indeed, colonial societies in general.
650			_aSaints
650			_aGoddesses and Kings
650			_aMuslims and Christians
700			_aSusan Bayly
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