Frederick Eden Pargiter (1852–18 February 1927) was a British civil servant and Orientalist.
He studied at Taunton Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford where he passed in 1873 with a first-class in mathematics.
Pargiter passed the Indian Civil Service examinations and embarked for India in 1875.
Pargiter voluntarily retired in 1906 following the death of his wife and returned to the United Kingdom.
In his Ancient Indian Historical Tradition, taking the accession of Chandragupta Maurya in 321 BC as his reference point, Pargiter dated the Battle of Kurukshetra to 950 BC assigning an average of 14.48 years for each king mentioned in the Puranic lists.