Essays in Indian History

Essays in Indian History

Towards a Marxist Perception

By Irfan Habib
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Publication Date: 3rd November 2015

This collection brings together, for the first time, several seminal essays by Professor Irfan Habib interpreting the main currents in Indian history from a Marxist perspective. They cover a wide range... Read More
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This collection brings together, for the first time, several seminal essays by Professor Irfan Habib interpreting the main currents in Indian history from a Marxist perspective. They cover a wide range... Read More
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This collection brings together, for the first time, several seminal essays by Professor Irfan Habib interpreting the main currents in Indian history from a Marxist perspective. They cover a wide range of issues: the nature of evolution of caste through the centuries, the role played by the peasantry in Indian history, the forms of class struggle and the stage of development of the economy in Mughal India, the impact of colonialism on the Indian economy, the changes in Marx's perceptions of India, the problems of Marxist historiography. Representing three decades of scholarship, each essay in this collection is painstakingly researched and unfailingly stimulating.
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  • Price: $28.00
  • Pages: 392
  • Carton Quantity: 24
  • Publisher: Tulika Books
  • Imprint: Tulika Books
  • Publication Date: 3rd November 2015
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9789382381693
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
    HISTORY / Essays
    HISTORY / Historiography
Reviews
Irfan Habib's stature as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of modern Indian historians, stands secure. The essays gathered together in this volume show why this judgement is correct.
- Indian Review of Books
Author Bio
Irfan Habib, professor emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707 (1963; revised edition 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982), Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995), Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization (2007), Economic History of Medieval India, 1200–1500 (with collaborators) (2011) and Atlas of Ancient Indian History (with Faiz Habib) (2012). He is the general editor of the People's History of India series, and has authored six volumes and co-authored two volumes in the series. He has co-edited The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I (1982), UNESCO's History of Humanity, Vols. 4 and 5, and UNESCO's History of Central Asia, Vol. 5.
This collection brings together, for the first time, several seminal essays by Professor Irfan Habib interpreting the main currents in Indian history from a Marxist perspective. They cover a wide range of issues: the nature of evolution of caste through the centuries, the role played by the peasantry in Indian history, the forms of class struggle and the stage of development of the economy in Mughal India, the impact of colonialism on the Indian economy, the changes in Marx's perceptions of India, the problems of Marxist historiography. Representing three decades of scholarship, each essay in this collection is painstakingly researched and unfailingly stimulating.
  • Price: $28.00
  • Pages: 392
  • Carton Quantity: 24
  • Publisher: Tulika Books
  • Imprint: Tulika Books
  • Publication Date: 3rd November 2015
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9789382381693
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
    HISTORY / Essays
    HISTORY / Historiography
Irfan Habib's stature as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of modern Indian historians, stands secure. The essays gathered together in this volume show why this judgement is correct.
– Indian Review of Books
Irfan Habib, professor emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707 (1963; revised edition 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982), Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995), Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization (2007), Economic History of Medieval India, 1200–1500 (with collaborators) (2011) and Atlas of Ancient Indian History (with Faiz Habib) (2012). He is the general editor of the People's History of India series, and has authored six volumes and co-authored two volumes in the series. He has co-edited The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I (1982), UNESCO's History of Humanity, Vols. 4 and 5, and UNESCO's History of Central Asia, Vol. 5.