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Richard M. Eaton. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume 1, part 8, A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761, Eight Indian Lives. (The New Cambridge History of India.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 221. $75.00.
Over the past few decades a quiet revolution has been occurring in American scholarship on the premodern history of the Deccan, that extensive, relatively remote, isolated, and mostly semi-arid part of India that constitutes the plateau to the south of the Narmada river, the territory now comprised by the three linguistically defined states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. Once a backwater of Indian historiography, the new social history of the Deccan in medieval and early modern times has reached a level of sophistication and depth comparable to that for the better-known north. To a considerable extent this is due to the imaginative work done by a cluster of historians which of one time or another have been associated with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, most notably Richard M. Eaton, Cynthia Talbot, Phillip B. Wagoner, John F. Richards, and the Telugu scholar Velcheru Narayana Rao.	1
This beautifully illustrated, slim volume provides an excellent introduction to a new body of highly original work for all students of South Asia, general readers as much as cognoscenti. It updates previous general accounts of the Deccan or parts thereof, including Burton Stein's Vijayanagara (1989), which appeared as Volume 1.2 of the New Cambridge History of India.	. . .

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