Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition

UC Irvine 2008

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Professor Richard Eaton,

University of Arizona, Tucson

 

    Professor Eaton holds an MA and PhD in History from the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. At Wisconsin-Madison he wrote a dissertation on the Sufis of Bijapur, directed by John Richards. Subsequently, he worked on the Sufis of the medieval Punjab and wrote a monograph on the growth of Islamic society in medieval Bengal. More recently (2007), Dr. Eaton co-edited a volume with Professor Indrani Chatterjee (Rutgers University) on slavery in South Asian History and published a social history of the precolonial Deccan, featuring the biographies of eight individuals. He is currently engaged in a study co-authored with Professor Phillip Wagoner (Wesleyan University), titled Power, Memory, and Architecture: Contested Sites in the 16th-century Deccan.

 

 

Contact: reaton@email.arizona.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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