Richard Maxwell Eaton

Richard Maxwell Eaton (born 1940) is an American historian and professor of history at the University of Arizona. His scholarship focuses on pre-modern India, especially the Deccan, the Bengal frontier, Islam in India, Sufis, slavery, and cultural history, and he is known for works such as *Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States* and *India in the Persianate Age: 1000–1765*.