Richard M. Eaton
Richard M. Eaton | |
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Born | Richard Maxwell Eaton 1940 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States |
Occupation | Historian |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | College of Wooster, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Genre | History |
Notable works |
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Richard Maxwell Eaton (born 1940) is an American historian, currently working as a professor of history at the University of Arizona.[1] He is known for having written the notable books on Indian history 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, Islam in India and India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765, a book with a focus on new cultural history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the British.[3][4][5]
Publications[]
Eaton has written and edited several books on India and related topics:
- Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700 - Princeton University Preas : 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 0 Eight Indian Lives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, - published: 2000 (The New Cambridge History of India. I.8,)
- India's Islamic Traditions, 711-1750. Oxford University Press: 2003
- Temple Desecration and Muslim States in Medieval India - published: 2004
- Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 - Oxford University Press: 2014
- India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 - University of California Press; Penguin: 2019[8][9]
- co-ed. with Ramya Sreenivasan. The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World. 2020. (in process, DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.001.0001
References[]
- ^ "56655768". VIAF. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- "New book focusses on rise of Persianate age in Indian subcontinent".
- "Some musings from Ayodhya".
- "'We will never know the number of temples desecrated through India's history': Richard Eaton".
- Sharma, Sudhirendar (December 14, 2019). "'India in the Persianate Age' review: The syncretic age of Persia in India". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com.
- ^ "Eaton, Richard M".
- ^ 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.
- ^ Butler, John (2020-06-12). ""India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765" by Richard M Eaton". Asian Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ Guha, Ramachandra (10 January 2020). "Indian cosmopolis - Book Review - Medieval history". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700. March 8, 2015. ISBN 9780691616483 – via press.princeton.edu.
- ^ Eaton, Richard Maxwell (February 6, 2002). Essays on Islam and Indian History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195662658 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Richard M Eaton Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'A Social History Of the Deccan, 13001761'". www.biblio.com.
- ^ "Eaton, Richard Maxwell". WorldCat Identities.
External links[]
- Richard M Eaton at University of Arizona
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- People from Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Living people
- 20th-century American historians
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- 1940 births
- 20th-century American writers
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- Historians from Michigan