"A local oral tradition collected in 1844 further attributed to Pir Ma‘bari Khandayat the expulsion of a group of local Brahmins from their agrahar, or Brahmin village, at Bijapur.” Notwithstanding this portrayal of Pir Ma‘bari as a fierce wager of jihad wielding an iron bar, some recent works have interpreted the Sufi in a peaceful light. The Bombay Gazetteer for 1884 stated that around 1305 he came to the Deccan as a “missionary’ and converted to Islam a large number of Jains whose descendants are among the cultivating classes of Bijapur District... His name, Khandayat, literally means “blunted bar.’"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Academics from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesHistorians from the United StatesPeople from MichiganIndologists
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
30-31
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_M._Eaton
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Richard M. Eaton
22 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Richard M. Eaton →
Related Quotes
"One intriguing thing about Eaton is that his own research of the medieval literatures on Indian Sufis for his Ph.D. t…"
"Regardless of this change in emphasis, it is important to note that not all Western Sufi scholarship of the last half…"
"According to the cover text on his book, Eaton is professor of History at the University of Arizona and “a leading hi…"
"One Western author who has become very popular among India's history-rewriters is the American scholar Prof. Richard …"
"The notion that Babur’s officer destroyed a temple dedicated to Rama’s birthplace at Ayodhya and then got the emperor…"
"When Firuz Tughluq invaded Orissa in 1359 and learned that the region's most important temple was that of Jagannath l…"
"An inscription dated 1455, found over the doorway of a tomb-shrine in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh [mentions] the destruction…"
"One often hears that between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, Indo-Muslim states, driven by a Judeo-Islamic “…"
"Before marching to confront Shivaji himself, however, the Bijapur general [Afzal Khan] first proceeded to Tuljapur an…"
"Much of the contemporary evidence on temple desecration cited by Hindu nationalists is found in Persian materials tra…"