Richard M. Eaton
Author of India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
About the Author
Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Works by Richard M. Eaton
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies) (1993) 42 copies
The New Cambridge History of India: A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761 (1993) — Author; Contributor — 42 copies
Islamic History As Global History (Essays on Global and Comparative History Series) (1990) 17 copies
India's Islamic Traditions: 711-1750 (Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History) (2006) 16 copies
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- 1940-12-08
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Unlike many authors who focus on North India or the Mughals, he covers North, East, and South India. It starts with Mahmud of Ghazni and busts the Somnath myth. Then, he covered a wide sweep of history until the British. We may have become a Persian-speaking country if the Mughals had not imploded. My father studied Persian, apart from Punjabi and English, not Hindi.
Books like this cover great ground and are tough stories to write. Many themes weave together, each strand and node affecting the other. It can become confusing for the reader.
To Richard Eaton's eternal credit, he created a fascinating, engaging, eye-opening, and comprehensible book.
I believe this is a book every Indian, especially today, must read.… (more)