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Richard M. Eaton

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Richard M. Eaton
Richard M. Eaton
Born
Richard Maxwell Eaton

(1940-12-08) December 8, 1940 (age 85)
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
EducationCollege of Wooster, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin–Madison
OccupationHistorian
Writing career
GenreHistory
Notable works
  • Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States

Richard Maxwell Eaton (born 1940) is an American historian, currently working as a professor of history at the University of Arizona.[1] He has written books on the history of India before 1800. He is also credited for his work on the social roles of Sufis, slavery, and cultural history of pre-modern India.[2] His research is focused on the Deccan, the Bengal frontier, and Islam in India. Some of his notable works include Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States and India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765, which gives a cultural and historical overview of India from the medieval period to the arrival of the British.[3][4][5]

Publications

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Eaton has written and edited several books on India and related topics:

  • Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700 - Princeton University Press: 1978[6]
  • Islamic History as Global History - American Historical Association,: 1990
  • Firuzabad: Palace City of the Deccan - Oxford University Press: 1992
  • The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 - Oxford University Press: 1993
  • Essays on Islam and Indian history - Oxford University Press: 2000[7]
  • A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2000 (The New Cambridge History of India. I.8)
  • India's Islamic Traditions, 711-1750 (general editor). Oxford University Press: 2003
  • Approaches to the Study of Conversion to Islam in India in Religious Movements in South Asia 600-1800 (edited by David N. Lorenzen) - Oxford University Press: 2005
  • Temple Desecration and Muslim States in Medieval India - published: 2004
  • Slavery and South Asian History (co-editor with Indrani Chatterjee) - Indiana University Press: 2006, ISBN 978-0-253-11671-0
  • Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 (with Phillip B. Wagoner). Oxford University Press: 2014
  • India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 - University of California Press; Penguin: 2019[4]
  • co-ed. with Ramya Sreenivasan. The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World. 2020. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.001.0001

References

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  1. ↑ "56655768". VIAF. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  2. ↑ "Eaton, Richard M".
  3. ↑ Sharma, Sudhirendar (2019-12-14). "'India in the Persianate Age' review: The syncretic age of Persia in India". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
  4. 1 2 Butler, John (2020-06-12). ""India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765" by Richard M Eaton". Asian Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
  5. ↑ Guha, Ramachandra (10 January 2020). "Indian cosmopolis - Book Review - Medieval history". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
  6. ↑ The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700. March 8, 2015. ISBN 9780691616483 – via press.princeton.edu.
  7. ↑ Eaton, Richard Maxwell (February 6, 2002). Essays on Islam and Indian History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195662658 – via Google Books.
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