Books by Richard M. Eaton
Richard Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. His books include Sufis of Bijapur: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India; The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760; Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives (Cambridge, 2005); and Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600. In 2020 Penguin Books, London, published India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765, a survey of India’s most controversial historical period.
Interviews with Richard M. Eaton
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Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires
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The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719
by Munis Faruqui -
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Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship & Sainthood in Islam
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Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
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Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary
by Rajeev Kinra
The best books on The Mughal Empire, recommended by Richard M. Eaton
The best books on The Mughal Empire, recommended by Richard M. Eaton
The Mughals ruled the Indian subcontinent for three centuries, a multicultural empire that brought together an extraordinary mix of Mongol, Islamic, Persian and Indian practices, religious beliefs and philosophies. Here, historian Richard M. Eaton, a professor at the University of Arizona, chooses some of the best scholarly works on the Mughals that shed new light on how the empire functioned.
