John F. Richards

John F. Richards (November 3, 1938 – August 23, 2007) was a historian of South Asia and in particular of the Mughal Empire. He was Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina, and a recipient in 2007 of the Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award. He participated in and encouraged a multi-disciplinary, multi-regional approach to studies. Quotes Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the dynasty and the empire itself became indisputably Indian. The interests and futures of all concerned were in India, not in ancestral homelands in the Middle East or Central Asia. Furthermore, the Mughal empire emerged from the Indian historical experience. It was the end product of a millennium of Muslim conquest, colonization, and state-building in the Indian subcontinent. The Mughal Empire (1995), Cambridge University Press, p. 2. External links Category:1938 births Category:2007 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Historians from the United States Category:People from New Hampshire Category:Duke University faculty Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni