Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal

By David M Kane

This 288 page book is a reproduction of David Kane's 2008 doctoral thesis on puthi-poṛa, 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-poṛa 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-poṛa was used in this process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955279186
• ISBN13: 9780955279188
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Blurb
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"