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Eaton, Richard Maxwell was born on December 8, 1940 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Robert Menzo and Miriam (Adams) Eaton.
(In this fascinating account of one of the least known par...)
In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Richard 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. Their stories are woven together into a rich narrative tapestry, which illuminates the most important social processes of the Deccan across four centuries and provides a much-needed book by the most highly regarded scholar in the field.
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( The Sufis were heirs to a tradition of Islamic mysticis...)
The Sufis were heirs to a tradition of Islamic mysticism, and they have generally been viewed as standing more or less apart from the social order. Professor Eaton contends to the contrary that the Sufis were an integral part of their society, and that an understanding of their interaction with it is essential to an understanding of the Sufis themselves. In investigating the Sufis of Bijapur in South India, (he author identifies three fundamental questions. What was the relationship, he asks, between the Sufis and Bijapur's 'ulama, the upholders of Islamic orthodoxy? Second, how did the Sufis relate to the Bijapur court? Finally, how did they interact with the non-Muslim population surrounding them, and how did they translate highly developed mystical traditions into terms meaningful to that population? In answering these questions, the author advances our knowledge of an important but little-studied city-state in medieval India. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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( In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the ...)
In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.
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Eaton, Richard Maxwell was born on December 8, 1940 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Robert Menzo and Miriam (Adams) Eaton.
Bachelor, College Wooster, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Virginia, 1967; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1972.
Assistant professor of history, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1972-1978; associate professor, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1978-1994; professor, U. Arizona, Tucson, since 1994.
(In this fascinating account of one of the least known par...)
( The Sufis were heirs to a tradition of Islamic mysticis...)
( In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the ...)
Member Association Asian Studies, Middle East Studies Association.