Prof. Iqtidar Alam Khan

(a) Books:

Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, Delhi, OUP, 2004.

Akbar and His Age, ICHR, Monograph 5, Northern Book Centre, New Delhi, 1999.

The Political Biography of a Mughal Noble:Life of Mun’im Khan, Khan-i Khanan, 1497-1575, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1973.

Mirza Kamran - A Biographical Study, Asia Publishing House, Bombay 1963.

(b) Research Papers:

‘Mirza Nama’ (A treatise on the social etiquette of the Mughals) annotated Urdu translation with an introduction, Aj-Kal, Delhi, January, 1962.

‘Wizarat under Humayun, 1545-55’, Medieval India Quarterly, Vol. V, Aligarh, 1963.

‘Urdu Novel Ki Ibteda’ (“Origins of the Urdu Novel”), Naqoosh, Lahore, September 1965.

‘Nobility under Akbar and the Development of His Religious Policy’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1968.

‘The Mughal Court Politics During Bairam Khan’s Regency’, Medieval India-A Miscellany, Vol.I, Aligarh, 1969.

‘Notes on the Chronology of Humayun’s Reign’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 1972.

‘The Social Contradictions of Indian Feudalism’, presented at the Seminar on “the Colonisation of the Indian Economy”, AMU., Aligarh, March 1972, published in Radical Review, Madras, 1972.

‘The Turko-Mongol Theory of Kingship’, Medieval India-A Miscellany, Vol. II, Aligarh, 1972.

‘Shaikh Abdul Quddus Gangohi’s Relations with the Political Authorities: A Re-Apparaisal’, Medieval India-A Miscellany, Vol. IV, Aligarh, 1977.

‘The Middle Classes in the Mughal Empire’, Presidential Address, Indian History Congress, Section II, Aligarh, 1975, published in Social Scientist, No. 49, August 1977.

‘Origin and Development of Gunpowder Technology in India: A.D. 1250-1500’, The Indian Historical Review, Vol. IV, No.1, New Delhi, July 1977.

‘A Note on the Conception of Akbar’s Religious Policy’, History and Society:Essays in Honour of Professor Niharranjan Ray, edited by Debiparsad Chattopadhya, Calcutta, 1978.

‘The Secular State in India:Historical Perspective’, published in Essays in Honour of Professor Sasobhan Sarkar, People’s Publishing House, 1978.

‘Early Use of Cannon and Musket in India:A.D.1442-1526’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Part II, Leiden, 1980.

‘Medieval Society in Indian History’, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Bombay, 18 May 1980.

‘The Tazkirat ul-Muluk by Rafiuddin Ibrahim Shirazi:As a Source of the History of Akbar’s Reign’, Studies in History (Biannual Journal of the Centre of Historical Studies, JNU), Vol,II, No.1, January-June, New Delhi, 1980.

‘Coming of Gunpowder and the Response of Indian Polity’, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Occasional Paper No, 35, Calcutta, 1981.

‘Marx’s Assessment of the Islamic Tradition’, Social Scientist, No 120, New Delhi, May 1983.

‘Ahmadnagar and the Sur Empire, 1537 to 1553 - a Study of Contemporary Documents’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Burdwan, 1983.

‘Medieval Indian Notions of Secular Statecraft’, Social Scientist, No. 152, New Delhi, January 1986.

“The Mansagar Dam of Amber (jointly with Ravindra Kumar) Technology in Ancient and Medieval India, edited by Anirudha Ray and S.K. Bagchi, Delhi, 1986.

‘New Light on the History of Two Early Timurid Monuments of Bayana’, Muqarnas, Vol. VI, ed. Oleg Grabar, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1989.

‘Location, Structure and Functioning of a pre-Modern Water-work: a study of Guru Ka Tal’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Dharwar, 1988, pub. Delhi 1989.

‘Pre-Modern Indigo Vats of Bayana: A Study of Surviving Structures’, Journal of Islamic Environmental Design, Rome, 1989.

‘The Karwansarays of Mugal India: A Study of Surviving Structures’, The Indian Historical Review, Vol.XIV, Numbers 1-2, New Delhi, 1990.

‘Aligarh Tahrik aur Tarikh-nigari: Urdu Culture main, Danishwarana Roshan-khiali ki Peshraft ka ek ahm Pehlu (Urdu), Professor Mujeeb Memorial Lecture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, published in Fikr-o-Nazr, Vol.28, No.4, Aligarh, 1991.

‘The Mughal Assignment system During Akbar’s Early Years, 1556-75′, Medieval India 1: Resarches in the History of India: 1200-1750, edited by Irfan Habib, OUP, New Delhi 1992.

‘Akbar’s Personality Traits and World Outlook: A Critical Reappraisal’, Social Scientist, Volume 20, Nos. 232-33. New Delhi, September-October, 1992.

‘The Nature of Handguns in Mughal India: 16th and 17th Centuries’, Proceeding of the Indian History Congress, New Delhi, 1991-92, pub. Delhi, 1992.

‘Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s Temporary Capital at Suargduari-Preliminary Exploration Report’, The Indian Historical Review, Vol. XVI, Nos. 1-2, New Delhi, 1993.

‘Structure, Location and Working of a Seventeenth Century Dyke at Kishangarh’, published in Mughal Architecture Pomp and Ceremonies ed. Attilio Pitrucciolli, being the special number of Journal of Islamic Environmental Design, Rome, 1994.

‘Coming of Gunpowder to the Islamic World and North India: Spotlight on the Role of the Mongols’, Journal of Asian History, ed. Denis Sinor, Wiesbaden, Vol.30, No.1, 1996.

‘The Role of the Mongols in the Introduction of Gunpowder in South Asia’ in Brendra J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology, Bath, 1996.

‘Nature of Gunpowder Artillery in India during the Sixteenth Century — A Reappraisal of the Impact of European Gunnery’, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, London, third series, Vol.9, Part I, April 1997.

‘Gwallior Contingent in 1857: A Study of the Organization and Idiology of the Sepoy Rebels’, Social Scientist, Vol.26, no.1-4, Jan-April 1998, New Delhi.

‘Sikh Resistance to Ahmad Shah Abdali’s Invasion of the Punjab 1764-65’, tr. in J.S. Grewal and Irfan Habib (eds.), Sikh History from Persian Sources, Translations of Major Texts, Tulika, New Delhi, 2001.

‘The Khalsa of Guru Gobind Singh: Its Soldiers and their Arms’ in Himadri Banerjee (ed.) The Khalsa and the Punjab: Studies in Sikh History to the 19th Century, New Delhi: Tulika, 2002.

‘Anti-Colonial Resisteance and the Jihad Movement of Nineteenth Century India’, in War and Peace in Islam, ed. Mushirul Hasan, Delhi Policy Group, New Delhi, 2002.

State in Mughal India: Re-examining the Myths of a Counter-vision’, Social Scientist, Vol.29, Nos.1-2, January-February 2003.

‘Concept of India in Alberuni’ in Irfan Habib (ed.). India – Studies in the History of an Idea, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2004.

‘The Indian Response to Firearms (1300-1750)’, Presidential Address, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 59th session, Bangalore, 1997. A revised version published in Brendra J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A Technological History, Ashgate, Hants, 2006.