Richard Eaton
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The Mughals Were Not an Indian Dynasty — They Were a Dynasty in India
X.T.M argues, drawing on Richard Eaton, that the Mughals were a dynasty in India rather than an Indian dynasty, anchored in Persianate high culture and Turko-Mongol kingship, and contrasts them…
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Open Thread – 09/19/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 19 September 2020, opening with a recommendation of Richard Eaton’s India in the Persianate Age, plans to read more primary sources, and links to podcasts with Matthew…
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History beyond the screaming
Razib Khan says he will stop weighing in on Twitter history debates about the subcontinent, finding Indians and Pakistanis too emotionally invested for nuance, while still finding the history itself…
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The religion of Hindus before Hinduism
Razib Khan disputes Richard Eaton’s aside that Turk-Indian conflict was not confessional, arguing religious and civilisational identity was robust and that a bundled Hindu identity is older than the 19th…
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Islam on the fringes
Razib Khan reads Richard Eaton’s India in the Persianate Age, noting Mughal accounts of Muslim peasant pockets in 16th-century eastern Bengal and the thesis, which he finds broadly credible but…
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The rise of Islam after 1500 in the Indian subcontinent
Razib Khan recommends Richard Eaton’s The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, which explains Muslim majorities in eastern Bengal by peasant adoption of Islam under Mughal-era elites after 1576,…
