Hindu-Muslim relations in North Malabar, 1498-1947

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Hindu-Muslim relations in North Malabar, 1498-1947

Theodore Gabriel

Edwin Mellen Press, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-367) and index

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This volume studies the dynamics of Hindu-Muslim relations in a hitherto little-known part of the province in India, North Malabar. It pays special attention to the impact of external political powers on the communal situation. Besides the political history, the text also examines social organization, habits of communality, intermarriage, mutual adaptations in literature, music, architecture, and other indications of cultural osmosis. Sources in the regional language - Malayalam and the Alexander Bowland Papers on Malabar - provide information of use to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of comparative religion.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1: an introduction to the North Malabar region and distinctions between the Mappilas of North and South Malabar - contributory factors
  • nomenclature
  • geographical characteristics
  • distinctions between the North Malabar and South Malabar Mappilas
  • the causes of Mappila militancy
  • reasons for the distinctions between North and South Malabar Mappilas. Part 2: the seeds of disharmony - the Portuguese in Malabar
  • objectives of the Portuguese expedition to India
  • alleged anti-Muslim attitudes of the Portuguese
  • the origins of Muslim-Portuguese hostilities in Malabar
  • discrimination in Portuguese attitudes towards Hindus and Muslims
  • effect of Portuguese policies on communal relations in Malabar
  • Hindu-Muslim relations in pre-Portuguese days
  • status of Muslims in Pre-Portuguese Malabar
  • impact of Portuguese activities on Hindu-Muslim relations in Malabar
  • discriminatory attitudes of the Portuguese towards Hindus and Muslims
  • causes of Hindu-Muslim estrangement
  • Jihad versus holy crusade?
  • involvement of the Hindus in the Muslim-Portuguese confrontation.

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