Richard Maxwell Eaton (born 1940) is an American

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, currently working as a

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at the

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. * * * * He is known for having written the notable books on the history of India before 1800. He is also credited for his work on the social roles of

Sufis Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r ...

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, and cultural history of pre-modern India. His research is focused on the

Deccan The large Deccan Plateau in South India, southern India is located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada river. To the north, it is bou ...

, the Bengal frontier,

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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.

Publications

Eaton has written and edited several books on India and related topics: *''Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700'' - Princeton University Preas : 1978 *''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 *''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 *co-ed. with Ramya Sreenivasan. ''The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World''. 2020. (in process, DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.001.0001

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Richard M Eaton
at University of Arizona {{DEFAULTSORT:Eaton, Richard M. 20th-century American educators People from Grand Rapids, Michigan Living people 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 1940 births 20th-century American writers 20th-century American male writers Historians from Michigan