Download or read book Essays on Islam and Indian History written by Richard Maxwell Eaton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiography and Indo-Islamic civilization. The former deals with how historians structure and answer the questions they choose to ask of the past, the latter covers case studies of particular historical communities in India.