In spite of the way in which the rise and development of a wide range of different religious communities have affected the course of South Asian history, we still know very little about how and why these communities developed in the way they did, why they experienced different rates of growth and why some of them are larger and more influential than others.
The answer to these questions lies, at least in part, in the rise and growth of conversion movements involving changes in communal affiliation. But what is conversion and what are conversion movements? What do conversion...
In spite of the way in which the rise and development of a wide range of different religious communities have affected the course of South Asian histo...