A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent
Richard M. Eaton has over a long and varied career published a number of ground-breaking books on India before 1800, including major works on the social roles of Sufis, slavery, Indian biography, the growth of Muslim societies along Bengal's eastern frontiers, the social history of the Deccan, and the place of Islam in the sub-continent's history. India in the Persianate Age draws on a lifetime of teaching and research. He is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.
Remarkable... Richard Eaton's brilliant book stands as an important
monument to this almost forgotten world.
*The Spectator*
By rethinking this history as India's 'Persianate age', Eaton
breaks free from religious sectarianism that projects today's
tensions into the past ... His book is a fine tribute to India.
*The Times*
A brilliant, gripping, refreshing and scholarly history of India
from 1000AD to the 1750s, analysing the power of the Delhi
Sultanate, the Mogul Empire, its rise and decline and the rise of
the East India Company - totally essential reading.
*Simon Sebag Montefiore*
Genius ... India in the Persianate Age is Eaton's mature
masterpiece. It will, undoubtedly, become the authoritative account
of this most politically controversial period of South Asia's long
history.
*History Today*
A richly researched, badly needed and wholly convincing account ...
World history proves its worth.
*Literary Review*
Richard Eaton employs rich empirical detail to demonstrate that
intellectual encounters between the Sanksrit and Persian worlds
were not tied to any one religion and that the two were not hostile
... and does so with great panache.
*Business Standard*
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