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- Masters History Delhi University
- Bachelors History Delhi University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Irfan Habib is an Indian Marxist historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He identifies as a Marxist and is well known for his strong stance against Hindutva and Islamic fundamentalism. He has authored a number of books, notably the Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707, an Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps With Detailed Notes, and an Atlas of Ancient Indian History . As the general editor, he is also the driving force behind the A People's History of India series, volumes of which continue to be released.
Irfan Habib's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Cambridge Economic History of India (1982) (532)
- The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707 (1964) (168)
- Potentialities of Capitalistic Development in the Economy of Mughal India (1969) (114)
- Usury in Medieval India (1964) (50)
- Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995) (48)
- Studying a Colonial Economy—Without Perceiving Colonialism (1985) (45)
- An atlas of the Mug̲h̲al Empire : political and economic maps with detailed notes, bibliography, and index (1986) (38)
- Colonialization of the Indian Economy, 1757 - 1900 (1975) (34)
- Aspects of Agrarian Relations and Eco nomy in a Region of Uttar Pradesh during the 16th Century (1967) (34)
- The Technology and Economy of Mughal India (1980) (32)
- The Maritime Trade of India (1982) (29)
- Akbar and His India (1999) (24)
- The price regulations of 'Al'uddīn Khaljī-A defence of Ziā' Baranī (1984) (23)
- Interrogating the impact of onion-like carbons on the supercapacitive properties of MXene (Ti2CTX) (2019) (18)
- Evidence for Sixteenth-Century Agrarian Conditions in the Guru Granth Sahib (1964) (17)
- South India: Some General Considerations of the Region and its Early History (1982) (17)
- The Making of History - Essays Presented to Irfan Habib (2001) (17)
- Akbar and Technology (1992) (15)
- Indian Merchants and the Trade in the Indian Ocean c. 1500–1750 (1982) (15)
- The Rise of Merchant Empires: Merchant communities in precolonial India (1990) (15)
- Book review: Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (2021) (14)
- From Ariṭh to Rādhākund (2011) (14)
- Timur in the Political Tradition and Historiography of Mughal India (1997) (13)
- The Monetary System and Prices (1982) (12)
- The Peasant in Indian History (1983) (11)
- Classifying pre‐colonial India (1985) (11)
- Confronting colonialism : resistance and modernization under Haidar Ali & Tipu Sultan (2002) (11)
- Non-Agricultural Production and Urban Economy (1982) (11)
- State and diplomacy under Tipu Sultan : documents and essays (2001) (10)
- Problems of the Muslim Minority in India (1976) (9)
- European Trade with India (1982) (9)
- Karl Marx on India (2006) (9)
- Emergence of Nationalities (1975) (8)
- The economic history of medieval India: a survey (2001) (8)
- An Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps . By Irfan Habib. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982. xvii, 120 pp. 60 Maps. $69. (1984) (8)
- Ziyā Baranī's Vision of the State (1999) (7)
- Researches in the history of India, 1200-1750 (1994) (7)
- Capitalism in history (1995) (6)
- The Coming of 1857 (1998) (6)
- Gandhi and the National Movement (1995) (6)
- Unreason and Archaeology: The 'Painted Grey-Ware' and Beyond (1997) (6)
- The Left and the National Movement (1998) (6)
- The Currency System (1982) (6)
- Tarikh-i-Akbari (1993) (5)
- Institutional efforts: popularization of science in the mid 19th century. (1985) (5)
- Imaging River Sarasvati: A Defence of Commonsense (2001) (5)
- The Cambridge Economic History of India. Volume 1, C. 1200--c. 1750 (1983) (5)
- Geographical Background (1955) (5)
- A shared heritage, the growth of civilizations in India and Iran (2002) (5)
- The Formation of India: Notes on the History of an Idea (1997) (4)
- From the sixteenth to eighteenth century (1999) (4)
- Economic History Of Medieval India, 1200-1500 (2011) (4)
- Sikh History from Persian Sources: Translations of Major Texts (2001) (4)
- The currency system of the Mughal Empire (1556-1707) (1961) (4)
- The Congress and the Revolutionaries in the 1920s (1982) (4)
- Medieval India : the study of civilization (2008) (4)
- Towards Independence and Socialist Republic: Naujawan Bharat Sabha: Part One (1979) (3)
- Medieval Popular Monotheism and Its Humanism: The Historical Setting (1993) (3)
- Studying a Colonial Economy without Perceiving Colonialism (1984) (3)
- India-Studies in the History of an Idea (2005) (3)
- Neonatal Purpura Fulminans, a rare genetic disorder due to protein C deficiency: A case report. (2018) (3)
- The Ecological History of India (2019) (3)
- Civil Disobedience 1930-31 (1997) (3)
- The Envisioning of a Nation: A Defence of the Idea of India (1999) (3)
- Atlas of Ancient Indian History (2012) (3)
- Problems of Marxist Historiography (1988) (2)
- Pursuing the History of Indian Technology: Pre-Modern Modes of Transmission of Power (1992) (2)
- Post-mauryan India : 200 BC-AD 300 : a political and economic history (2012) (2)
- The national movement : studies in ideology and history (2011) (2)
- Book review: Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India Through Its Languages (2021) (2)
- Dealing with multiplicity: Mughal administration in Braj Bhum under Aurangzeb (1659–1707) (2016) (2)
- Economic Conditions before 1200 (1982) (2)
- Disease Spectrum and Frequency of Illness in Pediatric Emergency: A Retrospective Analysis From Karachi, Pakistan (2019) (2)
- The Medieval Deccan and Maharashtra (1982) (2)
- Maharashtra and the Deccan: a Note (1982) (1)
- Development in contrast : from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century (2003) (1)
- Book review: K. Paddayya, Neolithic Ashmounds of the Deccan: Their Place in the Archaeology of Peninsular India (2019) (1)
- Capital Accumulation and the Exploitation of the 'Unequal' World: Insights from a Debate within Marxism (2003) (1)
- Towards a Marxist Perception of Indian History (2011) (1)
- Akbar and His Search for Spiritual Truth (2022) (1)
- Technology and society in Mughal India : symposium, problems of acclimatization of foreign technology, Tokyo, 25-28 February 1980 (1980) (1)
- What Makes the World Change: The Long View (2003) (1)
- Writing Indian History in the Marxist Mode in a Post-Soviet World (1996) (1)
- Across Time and Continents: A Tribute to Victor G. Kiernan (2004) (1)
- Classes and Class Struggle in Indian History (1994) (1)
- OCCASIONAL PAPER 30 HEALING AND HEALERS INSCRIBED : EPIGRAPHIC BEARING ON HEALING-HOUSES IN EARLY INDIA (2011) (1)
- Indian economy under early British rule, 1757-1857 (2013) (1)
- Interpreting Indian history (1988) (1)
- Reconstructing Kushan chronology (2014) (1)
- Technology in medieval India : c. 650-1750 (2008) (1)
- Ṣulḥ-i Kul under Akbar: Reconstructing the Short Life of a Concept of Human Amity (2021) (1)
- Book Reviews : ANDRE WINK, Land and Sovereignty in India—Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth Century Maratha Svarajya, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986, xviii + 417pp., £27.50 (Rupee price not stated) (1988) (1)
- Maharashtra and the Deccan (1982) (1)
- Theories of social change in South Asia : Nazmul Karim Memorial lecture University of Dhaka 1986 (1986) (1)
- The Far South (1982) (1)
- Trade and merchants in Indian history (2015) (1)
- Indian people in the struggle for freedom: Five essays (1998) (0)
- The Philosophy of History 1 (2011) (0)
- On symmetric closed subsets of real affine root systems (2022) (0)
- Book Review: Osmund Bopearachchi, From Bactria to Taprobane: Selected Works of Osmund Bopearachchi, Vol. I: Central Asian and Indian Numismatics (2015) (0)
- Book Review: J.V. Naik, The Collected Works of J.V. Naik: Reform and Renaissance in Nineteenth Century Maharashtra (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Sushil Chaudhury, Companies, Commerce and Merchants: Bengal in the Pre-colonial Era (2016) (0)
- Book Review: Sucheta Mahajan, ed., Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India: 1947, Part 1 (2014) (0)
- Caste and money in Indian history (1987) (0)
- Book review: K. L. Tuteja, Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness and Nationalism in Colonial Punjab (2022) (0)
- Book review: Shalva Weil (ed.), The Jews of Goa (2022) (0)
- Role of the Marxist Intellectuals in India Today (1972) (0)
- Book review: Azfar Moin, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (2018) (0)
- Book review: Tony Joseph, The Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where They Came From (2020) (0)
- The rise of capitalism in England: Reviewing the Brenner thesis (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Sudhir Chandra, Gandhi—An Impossible Possibility (2017) (0)
- Book review: R.N. Misra, Ascetics, Piety and Power: Śaiva Siddhānta Monastic Art in the Woodlands of Central India (2019) (0)
- Book review: Bhairabi Prasad Sahu and Kesavan Veluthat, eds., History and Theory: The Study of State, Institutions and Making of History (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Dietmar Rothermund, Violent Traders: Europeans in Asia in the Age of Mercantilism (2015) (0)
- Book Review: T[HAKKURA PHERØ, Gaµitasårakaumudð: The Moonlight of the Essence of Mathematics (2014) (0)
- Religion, accumulation and credit in Mughal times—Evidence from the Vrindavan archives (2019) (0)
- The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 1: C. 1200–c. 1750 . Edited by Tappan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xvi, 505 pp. Bibliography, Appendix, Index. $79.50 (cloth). (1983) (0)
- Book review: Ira Mukhoty, Akbar the Great Mughal: The Definitive Biography (2020) (0)
- Book reviews (2005) (0)
- Book review: Robert Eric Frykenberg, ed., Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History and Robert Eric Frykenberg, ed., Land Tenure and Peasant in South Asia (2022) (0)
- Marginalized people in the Mauryan Society (2009) (0)
- Book review: Zak Cope, The Wealth of (Some) Nations—Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer (2021) (0)
- Book Review: Ziyā Baranī, Tārīkh-i Fīrozshāhī (2015) (0)
- Book review: T.C.A. Raghavan, The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan (2018) (0)
- Mapping the growth of a Mughal period township: Vrindavan (2019) (0)
- Book Review: K. Paddayya and Sushama G. Deo, Prehistory of South Asia (The Lower Palaeolithic or Formative Era of Hunting-Gathering) (2017) (0)
- Irfan Habib on Unscientific Approach Towards History and Losing Space of Dissent (2015) (0)
- Secular Sciences in an Era of Cultural Change: India, 1206–1526—A Survey (2022) (0)
- Remembering a Radical (2016) (0)
- The Indus civilization : including other Copper Age cultures and history of language change till c. 1500 BC (2002) (0)
- Book review: Manimugdha S. Sharma, Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today’s India (2020) (0)
- Women in Braj Bhūm (Mathura region): Glimpses through Mughal-period documents (2020) (0)
- Book Review: Manan Ahmad Asif, A Book of Conquest: The Chachnåma and Muslim Origins in South Asia (2017) (0)
- Marx on Indonesia and India (1983) (0)
- The Vedic age and the coming of iron, c. 1500-700 B.C. (2003) (0)
- Book review: Ruby Lal, In Pursuit of Playfulness: The Girl-Child/Woman in Nineteenth-Century India (2019) (0)
- Book review: S. Irfan Habib, ed., Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings and Inquilab: Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution (2019) (0)
- Colonialism, Modernization and the Asian Identity (2008) (0)
- Book review: Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Agrarian Society in Awadh: Structure and Change under the Pre-Colonial Regimes, c. 1595–1856 (2022) (0)
- Book Review: Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics (2016) (0)
- The Marxian Theory of Socialism and the Experience of Socialist Societies (1993) (0)
- Mughal Bharater Krishi Byabastha(1556-1707) (1958) (0)
- Reply (1989) (0)
- Unit-13 Revolutionary Trends (2018) (0)
- Mapping the canal system of Fīroz Shāh including an abortive Sarasvati ‘restoration’ (2017) (0)
- Reason vs. Religion in Medieval India: Mainly from Evidence in Persian (2023) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
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