The Firingees of Bangladesh

From the sixteenth century maritime encounters to the modern nation-state, Bengal has been a site of cultural convergence, religious transformation, and hybrid identity formation.

The Firingees of Bangladesh presents a long-range historical study of Eurasian communities and the evolution of Christian culture in Bengal from 1500 to 2025. Drawing upon archival materials, colonial records, missionary accounts, and postcolonial theory, the book reconstructs the layered history of a community often overlooked in mainstream South Asian historiography.

This interdisciplinary work explores colonial contact zones, the politics of identity, minority consciousness, religious adaptation, and cultural hybridity. It situates the Firingees within broader debates on empire, migration, subaltern memory, and the making of modern Bangladesh.

Blending historical documentation with cultural analysis, the book will interest readers of South Asian history, postcolonial studies, minority studies, religious history, and global humanities scholarship.