Richard M Eaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 302177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard M Eaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard M |
| FAMILY NAME | Eaton |
| SIGNATURE | EATON R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Al-Hind
The King and the People
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
Three Overlapping Frontiers in Early Modern Bengal
N andini C hatterjee . Negotiating Mughal Law
“This book,” asserts Nandini Chatterjee, “is the first micro-history written in the context of studies of the Mughal Empire” (224). The author’s bold claim is fully justified. Abjuring the well-trod path in Mughal historiography that explores such macrohistorical subjects as the state, economy, and agrarian system, the author wades deep into the lower levels of Indian society, focusing on the cross-generational story of a single locally prominent…
The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Islamization in Late Medieval Bengal
The growth of Islam was one aspect of a larger societal transformation that took place in late medieval Bengal. It is hardly surprising that Max Weber’s scattered references to Islam reflect the Orientalist modes of thought in his own day. Whereas Weber’s specific comments on Islam were in some ways problematic, or simply wrong, it is nonetheless possible to draw fruitful insights on the evolution of Islamic institutions from some of his more gen…
Ludwig W. Adamec 1924–2019
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Political and Cultural Evolution at Vijayanagara
India in the Persianate Age
Richard Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 (London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019). India -- History -- 1000-1765. Mogul Empire -- History. India
The Persian Cosmopolis (900–1900) and the Sanskrit Cosmopolis (400–1400)
Afterword
Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History
Power, Memory, Architecture
Focusing on India's Deccan plateau in the turbulent sixteenth century, this book examines the political histories and material culture of fortified strongholds that were repeatedly contested by the region's rival primary centres. It explores the many ways that political power, monumental architecture, and collective memory interacted with one another. It also radically rethinks the usefulness of Hindu-Muslim relations as the master key for interp…
Love’s subtle magic
Aditya Behl’s life’s work, which he tragically did not live to see published, centred on understanding and acquainting others with Hindavi Sufi romance literature. Called premakhyan (lit. ‘love-sto
Rethinking Religious Divides
Notwithstanding the considerable body of scholarship on South Asian history that has appeared over the past several decades, we still live with the image of a monolithic and alien Islam colliding with an equally monolithic Hinduism, construed as indigenous, and from the eleventh century on, politically suppressed. Such a cardboard-cutout caricature survives in much of India's tabloid media, as well as in textbooks informed by a revivalist, aggres…
‘Kiss My Foot,’ Said the King
INTRODUCTION Frontiers may be understood as spatial counterparts to revolutions: the one denotes a perceived break in continuous territory, the other a perceived rupture in time. In recent decades, historians have written of a worldwide military, or ‘gunpowder’ revolution that took place in the centuries following the fourteenth. Such a notion has in turn prompted several lines of enquiry. Some have tried to locate the moment in time when this re…
Chalukya Emperors, Delhi Sultans, 1000–1350
Since the memory of earlier sovereign domains exerted a profound influence on the Deccan’s subsequent politics and architecture, Chapter 1 looks back at those earlier domains. One of these was the illustrious Chalukya empire (tenth—twelfth centuries); the other was one of that empire’s successor states, the Kakatiya dynasty of Warangal (twelfth—fourteenth centuries). This chapter also traces and compares two civilizational traditions—the so-calle…
Shitab Khan and the Restoration of Kakatiya Cults and Temples
Shifting attention from the central to the eastern plateau, Chapter 5 follows the stormy career of Shitab Khan, a Telugu chieftain who, banished from service in the court of the Bahmani Sultanate in the mid-1400s, surfaced four decades later as an upstart ‘king’ on the eastern periphery of a declining Bahmani state. After capturing Warangal, a secondary centre far from any of the Deccan’s primary centres, this vivid figure managed to carve out a …
Allison BUSCH. Poetry of Kings
Journal Article Allison Busch. Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India. Get access Allison Busch. Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India. (South Asia Research Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2011. Pp. xv, 339. $74.00. Richard M. Eaton Richard M. Eaton University of Arizona [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historic…
From Bidar to Timbuktu
Women’s Grinding and Spinning Songs of Devotion in the Late Medieval Deccan
Women’s Grinding and Spinning Songs of Devotion in the Late Medieval Deccan
Shrines, Cultivators, and Muslim ‘Conversion’ in Punjab and Bengal, 1300–1700
This article discusses the growth of predominantly Muslim populations in two regions of South Asia—western Punjab and eastern Bengal. No evidence supports conventional understandings that Islamisation in these areas resulted from a desire for social liberation on the part of the lower orders of the Hindu caste system. Nor should Islamisation in these regions be characterised as instances of ‘conversion’, a term embedded in the nineteenth century …
Kiss My Foot,' Said the King
The little-known Battle for Raichur (1520), waged between Krishna Raya of Vijayanagara and Sultan Isma'il 'Adil Shah of Bijapur, saw a number of firsts in South Asian history: the earliest significant appearance of cannon-whether used offensively as field artillery, or used defensively on the battlements of forts-the earliest known appearance of matchlock firearms, and the first significant use of European mercenaries. It followed the merging of …
India in the Persianate Age
Richard Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 (London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019). India -- History -- 1000-1765. Mogul Empire -- History. India
Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States
TEMPLE DESECRATION AND INDO-MUSLIM STATES* RICHARD M. EATON RICHARD M. EATON University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *This is the full text of a lecture delivered at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 13 October 1999. It is being published in David Gilmartin and Bruce Lawrence (eds), Beyond Turk and Hindu (Gainseville, 2000) by the University Press of Florida and is printed here with thei…
Human settlement and colonization in the Sundarbans, 1200?1750
Conversion to Christianity among the Nagas, 1876-1971
Kiss My Foot,' Said the King
The little-known Battle for Raichur (1520), waged between Krishna Raya of Vijayanagara and Sultan Isma'il 'Adil Shah of Bijapur, saw a number of firsts in South Asian history: the earliest significant appearance of cannon-whether used offensively as field artillery, or used defensively on the battlements of forts-the earliest known appearance of matchlock firearms, and the first significant use of European mercenaries. It followed the merging of …
Shrines, Cultivators, and Muslim ‘Conversion’ in Punjab and Bengal, 1300–1700
This article discusses the growth of predominantly Muslim populations in two regions of South Asia—western Punjab and eastern Bengal. No evidence supports conventional understandings that Islamisation in these areas resulted from a desire for social liberation on the part of the lower orders of the Hindu caste system. Nor should Islamisation in these regions be characterised as instances of ‘conversion’, a term embedded in the nineteenth century …
Sufi Folk Literature and the Expansion of Indian Islam
The Court and the Dargah in the Seventeenth Century Deccan
Rethinking Religious Divides
Notwithstanding the considerable body of scholarship on South Asian history that has appeared over the past several decades, we still live with the image of a monolithic and alien Islam colliding with an equally monolithic Hinduism, construed as indigenous, and from the eleventh century on, politically suppressed. Such a cardboard-cutout caricature survives in much of India's tabloid media, as well as in textbooks informed by a revivalist, aggres…
From Bidar to Timbuktu
Indo-Muslim Traditions, 1200-1750
Firuzabad
In the heart of India's Deccan Plateau lies the ruined city of Firuzabad, the royal palace and second capital of Sultan Firuz Shah Bahmani (r.1397-1422). Built in the early years of the fifteenth century, the city displays a remarkably unified conception of Indo-Muslim architecture. But Firuzabad slipped into oblivion shortly after the death of its patron, and has since remained virtually unnoticed by archaeologists and art historians alike. In t…
The Court and the Dargah in the Seventeenth Century Deccan
Sufi Folk Literature and the Expansion of Indian Islam
The Muslims of British India
Islamic Literatures of India
Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700
Methodology
Journal Article METHODOLOGY Get access Religion, Nationalism and Economic Action Critical Questions on Durkheim and Weber By Matthew Schoffeleers and Daniel Meijers Van Gorcum, 1978 94 pages N P Richard M Eaton Richard M Eaton University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume L, Issue 4, December 1982, Pages 639–640, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/L.4…
The Political and Religious Authority of the Shrine of Bābā Farīd
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Review of olitical Parties in the West Bank under the Jordanian Regime, 1949-1967
Conversion to Christianity among the Nagas, 1876-1971
Human settlement and colonization in the Sundarbans, 1200?1750
Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760
Firuzabad
In the heart of India's Deccan Plateau lies the ruined city of Firuzabad, the royal palace and second capital of Sultan Firuz Shah Bahmani (r.1397-1422). Built in the early years of the fifteenth century, the city displays a remarkably unified conception of Indo-Muslim architecture. But Firuzabad slipped into oblivion shortly after the death of its patron, and has since remained virtually unnoticed by archaeologists and art historians alike. In t…
The Colonizer's Model of the World
Self and Other
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States
TEMPLE DESECRATION AND INDO-MUSLIM STATES* RICHARD M. EATON RICHARD M. EATON University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *This is the full text of a lecture delivered at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 13 October 1999. It is being published in David Gilmartin and Bruce Lawrence (eds), Beyond Turk and Hindu (Gainseville, 2000) by the University Press of Florida and is printed here with thei…
Locating Arakan in Time, Space, and Historical Scholarship
Indo-Muslim Traditions, 1200-1750
Beyond Hindu and Muslim
A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761
In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. He does so, vividly, through the lives of eight Indians who lived at different times during this period, and who each represented something particular about the Deccan. In the first chapter, for example, the author describes the demise of the …
Slavery and South Asian History
Original essays explore the reality of slavery in the South Asian past
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Nile Geeen's splendid monograph in a sense forms a companion piece to Simon Digby's Sufis and Soldiers in Awrangzeb's Deccan: Malfuzat-i Naqshbandiyya (Delhi, 2001). That study traced the lives and careers of two seventeenth-century Sufis who had migrated from Central Asia to Aurangabad, then a colonial ‘frontier town’ that served as a staging area for Mughal military operations in the northern Deccan plateau. Digby's book focused on how those tw…
Women’s Grinding and Spinning Songs of Devotion in the Late Medieval Deccan
Shrines, Cultivators, and Muslim ‘Conversion’ in Punjab and Bengal, 1300–1700
This article discusses the growth of predominantly Muslim populations in two regions of South Asia—western Punjab and eastern Bengal. No evidence supports conventional understandings that Islamisation in these areas resulted from a desire for social liberation on the part of the lower orders of the Hindu caste system. Nor should Islamisation in these regions be characterised as instances of ‘conversion’, a term embedded in the nineteenth century …
Kiss My Foot,' Said the King
The little-known Battle for Raichur (1520), waged between Krishna Raya of Vijayanagara and Sultan Isma'il 'Adil Shah of Bijapur, saw a number of firsts in South Asian history: the earliest significant appearance of cannon-whether used offensively as field artillery, or used defensively on the battlements of forts-the earliest known appearance of matchlock firearms, and the first significant use of European mercenaries. It followed the merging of …
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