How did East Bengal become Muslim-majority? Changing Ganga, Sufi entrepreneurs

Of the many scars that Partition left on South Asia, perhaps none is as raw as the India-Bangladesh border today. How did Islam become the region's predominant religion? Though it first arrived with Turkic conquerors, Anirudh Kanisetti explains that it became Bangladesh's majority religion through the slowest force of Indian history—the flow of the Ganga river.
Sources: Eaton, Richard Maxwell. The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760. University of California Press, 1993.





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