Richard M. Eaton
{{Short description|American historian}}
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| image = ২০১৬ সালে ঢাকায় রিচার্ড ইটন.jpg
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| birth_name = Richard Maxwell Eaton
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|12|8}}
| birth_place = Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
| occupation = Historian
| notableworks = * Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States
| genre = History
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| alma_mater = College of Wooster, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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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.{{cite web | title=56655768 | website=VIAF | url=https://viaf.org/viaf/56655768/ | access-date=2021-01-22}}
- {{Cite web | url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/amp/new-book-focusses-on-rise-of-persianate-age-in-indian-subcontinent/1625819 |title = New book focusses on rise of Persianate age in Indian subcontinent}}
- {{Cite web | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/opinion/some-musings-from-ayodhya/cid/1720953 |title = Some musings from Ayodhya}}
- {{Cite web | url=https://scroll.in/article/769463/we-will-never-know-the-number-of-temples-desecrated-through-indias-history-richard-eaton |title = 'We will never know the number of temples desecrated through India's history': Richard Eaton| date=20 November 2015 }}
- {{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/india-in-the-persianate-age-review-the-syncretic-age-of-persia-in-india/article30298120.ece|title='India in the Persianate Age' review: The syncretic age of Persia in India|first=Sudhirendar|last=Sharma|date=December 14, 2019|via=www.thehindu.com|newspaper=The Hindu}} 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, slavery, and cultural history of pre-modern India.{{Cite web | url=https://religion.arizona.edu/people/reaton | title=Eaton, Richard M}} 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.{{Cite news|last=Sharma|first=Sudhirendar|date=2019-12-14|title='India in the Persianate Age' review: The syncretic age of Persia in India|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/india-in-the-persianate-age-review-the-syncretic-age-of-persia-in-india/article30298120.ece|access-date=2021-03-03|issn=0971-751X}}{{Cite web|last=Butler|first=John|date=2020-06-12|title="India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765" by Richard M Eaton|url=https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/india-in-the-persianate-age-1000-1765-by-richard-m-eaton/|access-date=2021-03-03|website=Asian Review of Books|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|date=10 January 2020|title=Indian cosmopolis - Book Review - Medieval history|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/indian-cosmopolis/|access-date=2021-03-03|website=Times Literary Supplement|language=en-GB}}
Publications
Eaton has written and edited several books on India and related topics:
- Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700 - Princeton University Preas: 1978{{Cite book|url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691616483/the-sufis-of-bijapur-1300-1700|title=The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700|date=March 8, 2015|via=press.princeton.edu|isbn=9780691616483}}
- 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{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abGSNAAACAAJ|title=Essays on Islam and Indian History|first=Richard Maxwell|last=Eaton|date=February 6, 2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780195662658}}
- 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 (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 - 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. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.001.0001[https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34708]
References
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External links
- [https://arizona.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/richard-m-eaton Richard M Eaton] at University of Arizona
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Category:20th-century American educators
Category:People from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Category:20th-century American historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:20th-century American writers