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PUTHI-PORA IBD

BLURB
03 / 2017
9780955279188
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Sinopsis

This 288 page book is a reproduction of David Kane?s 2008 doctoral thesis on puthi-po?a, a Bengali tradition of book and manuscript reading. Kane?s thesis pursues two central aims. The first is ethnographic: to provide a documentation and description of puthi-po?a as it was performed in Sylhet, Bangladesh, in 2005. The second is historical: to shed light on a historical mystery-how Islam spread so rapidly and pervasively in Bengal from the sixteenth century. Kane?s hypothesis is that puthi-po?a was used in this process.