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The Mary Keatinge Das Lecture A talk by Richard Eaton (Arizona) “A Typology of Architecture and Power, and the Decline of Indian Buddhism”
Feb 26 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Mary Keatinge Das Lecture
A talk by Richard Eaton (Arizona)
“A Typology of Architecture and Power, and the Decline of Indian Buddhism”
Introduction by Katherine Ewing, Professor of Religion and Director, South Asia Institute
Time: 6:15pm – 7:45pm
Location: 208 Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, between Broadway and Claremont
A graduate of the universities of Virginia and Wisconsin, Richard Eaton currently teaches South Asian history at the University of Arizona. His monographs include Sufis of Bijapur: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India (Princeton, 1978); The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 (California, 1993); Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761:Eight Indian Lives (Cambridge, 2005); Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 with Phillip B. Wagoner (Oxford, 2014). He recently published a history survey: India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 (Penguin, 2020). Last year Primus Books published a collection of his recent essays, The Lotus and the Lion: Essays on India’s Sanskritic and Persianate Worlds. He is currently co-editing, with Ramya Sreenivasan, the Oxford Handbook on the Mughal empire.