Richard M. Eaton
American historian
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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 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]
December 8, 1940
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Richard M. Eaton | |
| Born | Richard Maxwell Eaton December 8, 1940 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Alma mater | College of Wooster, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Genre | History |
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Publications
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
