Interview with A.K. Basheerudheen
Dr. Basheerudheen is here to write a book on Lakshadweep
History. He is from West Bengal and his old
name is A.K. Bhattacharya. He converted to Islam when he was twenty threes
years old. An exert from the interview with him.
What is the prime motive behind this research. ?
As a part of my studies on the situation s of Islam in
southern India
in a historical perspaective.
Is your work goes on easy?
Well it is. But I am running
short of materials. So iwhish your readers could give oinformation about
these points
1.
The Salient Geographical and
Geological Facts about the Islands
2.
Early Settlers and the Salient
Ethnic Features
3.
Religious and Political History
of the islands down to the Age of its Coming of Islam
4.
How Islam came to the Islands
and how it Established itself there ( In the lights of the legends and the
facts)
5.
History of Islam on the Islands
till the age of the coming of the Portuguese ( The relations of the Muslim
order of the Maldives with the Muslim order of the Islands)
6.
Interaction with the Portuguese
and with the Kunjali Marakkars
7.
Interaction with the Other
Europeans
8.
Interaction with the Chirakkals
the Arakkal and Myssore
9.
Interactions with the Arakkals and the British as well as
the spread of the British influence over the Insular regions.3.
Readers can send any information on these points via email: ppmirfan@gmail.com or via Mobile No. 9995095232.