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319 COMMUNAL RELATIONS IN PRE-MODERN INDIA: 16th Century Kerala There have been many works on Hindu-Muslim relations in South Asia, but these have too often been restricted to the imperial policies of the Mughals or to the evolution of the Pakistan movement. Few regional studies have been written, and there are still fewer works which have dealt with the social relations of the two communities. This article attempts to broaden the understanding of the interaction of Hindu and Muslim societies in India by analyzing the relations of Kerala's Muslim community with the predominantly Hindu society of India's Malabar coast. It is focused on the sixteenth century because during this period Hindu-Muslim relations in Kerala appear to have been remarkably stable, and the reasons for this apparent harmony provide the basis for interpreting the causes of the bloody communal out- breaks that plagued Malabar District throughout the nineteenth century. The study of social organization and communal integration in sixteenth century Kerala has to be based on the two primary sources for the period: the account compiled by the Portugese Duarte Barbosa and the Arabic history of Zayn al-Din al-Macbarl which was completed about 1585 1). These two works complement
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1973
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