Prof. Irfan Habib

Books

1. Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization, NBT India, New Delhi, 2007
2. Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556-1707, Asia, Bombay, 1963. Translation published in Urdu, Bengali and Marathi; revised edition, Oxford, Delhi, 1999.
3. Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception, Tulika, New Delhi, 1995.
4. An Atlas of the Mughal Empire, Oxford, New Delhi, 1982; 2nd ed., 1983. 5. Editor (jointly with Tapan Raychaudhuri) with several contributions, Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol.I, Cambridge, 1982.

Monographs

1. The Indian Economy, 1858-1914, Tulika, Delhi, 2005
2. Mauryan India, (with V. Jha) Tulika, New Delhi, 2004.
3. Vedic Age, (with V. Thakur), Tulika, New Delhi, 2003.
4. Indus Civilization Tulika, Delhi, 2002.
5. Prehistory, Tulika, New Delhi, 2001.
6. The Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey, Tulika, New Delhi, 2001.
7. Interpreting Indian History, Zakir Husain Memorial Lectures, NEHU, Shillong, 1988.
8. Caste and Money in Indian History, D.D. Kosambi Memorial Lectures, Bombay University, 1987.
9. Peasant and Artisan Resistance in Mughal India (16th and 17th Centuries), McGill Studies in International Development, No.34, Montreal, Canada, 1984.

Edited Publications:

1. Religion in Indian Hsitory, Tulika, New Delhi, 2007.
2. India: Studies in the History of an Idea, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 2004.
3. History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume V jointly with Chahryar Adle, UNESCO, 2003.
4. A Shared Heritage: The Growth of Civilizations in India & Iran, Tulika, New Delhi, 2002.
5. State and Diplomacy under Tipu Sultan: Documents and Essays, Tulika, New Delhi, 2001.
6. Sikh History from Persian Sources (jointly with J.S. Grewal), Tulika, New Delhi, 2001.
7. Co-editor, with several contributions, History of Humanity, Vols.IV & V, UNESCO, 1999 and 2000.
8. Confronting Colonialism Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, Tulika, New Delhi, 1999.
9. Akbar and His India, Oxford, New Delhi, 1997
10. Medieval India-1, Oxford, New Delhi, 1992.
11. Madhyakalin Bharat (Bengali), I-II, 1990 Bagchi & Co., Calcutta.
12. Madhyakalin Bharat (Hindi), 1981-2003, I-VII Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi.
13. Medieval India - a Miscellany, IV Asia Bombay, 1977.

REPORT

1. Co-author, (with S. Jaiswal and A. Mukherjee), History in the New NCERT Text Books — a Report and an Index of Errors, Kolkatta, 2003.

PUBLISHED PAPERS
A. Medieval Economy and Society

1. ‘Medieval Ayodhya (Awadh), Down to Mughal occupation’, Proceeding of Indian History Congress, Calicut, 2006.
2. Persian Book Writing and Book Use in the Pre-Printing Age, 66th session, Santiniketan, 2005.
3. On the Door Steps of Historical Linguistics – A Note on Mughal Lexicography, 65th session, 2004 Bareilly.
4. Textile Times in Medieval Indian Persian Texts – A Glossary, 64th Session, 2003, Mysore.
5. Political Map of India, First Half of the 14th Century, 63rd Session, Amritsar, 2002.
6. Chaptes on ‘Zamindars’, Peasants’, ‘Labourers and Artisans’, ‘Tribes and Tribal Organisation’, The Village Community and Slavery in J.S. Grewal (ed.), The State and Society in Medieval India, Oxford, New Delhi, 2005.
7. ‘Evolution of the Afghan Tribal System’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 62nd session, Bhopal, 2001.
8. ‘Exploring Medieval Gender History’, Symposia Papers, Indian History Congress, pub. 2000.
9. ‘The Eighteenth Century in Indian Economic History’, presented at the symposium on The Eighteenth Century as a Category in Asian History’, NIAS, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, June 1998. Published in On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History, ed. L. Blusse and F. Gaastra, Aldershot, 1998; and in P.G. Marshall, The Eighteenth (Century in Indian History, Oxford, New Delhi, 2003.
10. ‘Economic and Social Aspects of Gardens in Mughal India’, Mughal Gardens-Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects, Eds. James L. Wescoat Jr. and Foachin Wolschke-Bulmahn, Washington, 1996.
11. ‘Peasant Differentiation and the Structure of Village Community: 16th and 17th-Century Evidence from Northern India’, Peasants in Indian History, ed. V.K. Thakur and A. Aounshuman, Patna, 1996.
12. ‘Agriculture and Agrarian Conditions in South Gujarat, 1596’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Mysore Session, 1994.
13. ‘Akbar and Social Inequities: A Study of the Evolution of his Ideas’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Warangal session, 1993. 14. ‘Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries - Evidence from Sufic Literature’, Indian Historical Review, Vol.XV, Nos.1-2, 1991.
15. ‘Merchant Communities in Pre-Colonial India’, Merchant Empires, ed. James Tracy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, pp.371-399.
16. ‘Land Rights in the Reign of Akbar - the Evidence of the sale-deeds of Vrindaban and Aritha’ (jointly with Tarapada Mukherjee), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Golden Jubilee Session, Gorakhpur, 1989.
17. ‘Fatehpur Sikri, the Economic and Social Setting’, Marg, Vol.XXXVIII, 1987.
18. ‘System of Trimetallism in the Age of the Price Revolution - Effects of the Silver Infulx on the Mughal Indian Monetary system’, The Monetary System of Mughal India, ed. J.F. Richards, Oxford, 1987.
19. ‘Classifying Pre-colonial India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.12 (Nos. 2 & 3), 1985. also in, Feudalism and Non-European Societies, eds. T.J. Byres and Harbans Mukhia, Frank Cass, London, 1985.
20. ‘Price Regulations of Alauddin Khalji - a Defence of Ziya Barani’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.21, No.4, 1984.
21. ‘Society and Economic change, 1200-1500’, U.P. Historical Review, vol.II, 1983.
22. ‘The Peasant in Indian History’, Presidential Address, Indian History Congress, 1982. Published in its Proceedings, 1982 session.
23. ‘Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate, an Essay in Interpretation’, Indian Historical Review, vol.IV, No.2, 1978.
24. ‘Indian Textile Industry in the 17th Century’, Professor S.C. Sarkar Felicitation Volume, New Delhi,1976.
25. ‘The System of Bills of Exchange (Hundis) in the Mughal Empire’, Proceedings of the Indian HistoryCongress, Muzaffarpur, Session, 1972.
26. ‘The Jatts of Punjab and Sind’ - Presidential Address at Punjab History Conference, 1971, published in Proceedings of the Conference, and subsequently in Punjab Past and Present, Essays in Honour of Dr Ganda Singh, eds., Harbans Singh and N. Gerald Barrier, Punjabi University, Patiala.
27. ‘Potentialities of Capitalistic Development in the Economy of Mughal India’ Journal of Economic History, (U.S.), 29, 1 (March 1969), and in Enquiry, N.S., vol.III, No.3, 1971.
28. ‘Aspects of Agrarian Relations and Economy in a Region of Uttar Pradesh during the 16th century’, Indian Economic and Social History Review IV(3), 1967.
29. ‘Distribution of Landed property in Pre-British India’ Enquiry, N.S. II(3), Winter 1965, Delhi, and in the Kosambi Commemoration Volume,Indian Society Historical Probings,ed.R.S.Sharma.
30. ‘Evidence for 16th century Agrarian conditions in the Guru Granth Sahib’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, I, 1964.
31. ‘Usury in Medieval India’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, VI, 1964, the Hague.
32. ‘The Currency System of the Mughal Empire (1556-1707)’, Medieval India Quarterly, IV (Nos.1-2), Aligarh, 1960.
33. ‘Banking in Mughal India’, Contributions to Indian Economic History-I, ed. Tapan Raychaudhuri, Calcutta, 1960.
34. ‘The Agrarian causes of the fall of the Mughal Empire’, Enquiry, 2 & 3, 1959.
35. ‘Zamindars in the Ain’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,Trivandrum, Session 1958.

B. History of Technology

36. ‘Textile Terms in Medieval Indian Persian Texts: A Glossary’, ‘Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 64th session, Mysore, 2003.
37. ‘Joseph Needham and the History of Indian Technology’, Indian Journal of History of Science, Vol.35, No.3, 2000.
38. ‘Akbar and Technology’, in Akbar and his India ed. I. Habib, Delhi, 1997.
39. ‘Pursuing the History of Indian Technology: Pre-Modern Modes of Transmission of Power’, Social Scientist, Vol.20 nos.3-4 March -April 1992. 40. ‘Capacity of Technological Change in Mughal India’, in: Aniruddha Roy and S.K.Bagchi (eds.) Technology in Ancient and Medieval India, Delhi, 1986, pp.1-14.
41. ‘Technological transmissions between the Islamic World and India in Medieval times’ (UNESCO Symposium Kuwait, 1984), published: ‘Medieval Technology Exchanges Between India and the Islamic World’, Aligarh Journal of Oriental Studies, II (1-2), 1985.
42. ‘Changes in Technology in Medieval India’ Studies in History, Vol.II, No.1, 1980.
43. ‘The Technology and Economy of Mughal India’, IESHR, Vol.XVII, No.1, 1980.
44. ‘Technology and barriers to Technological Change in Mughal India’, Indian Historical Review, Vol.V, No.1-2, 1978-79.
45. ‘Technological Changes and Society, 13th and 14th centuries’, Presidential Address, Section II, Indian Historical Congress, Varanasi Session, ,1969, published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 1969 session, and with addendum in Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (ed.) Studies in the History of Science in India, Vol.II, New Delhi, 1982.
46. ‘Political Map of India, First Half of the Fourteenth Century’ (with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 63rd session, Amritsar, pub. 2003.
47. ‘Economic Map of India, AD 500-800’ (with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 62nd session, Bhopal, pub. 2002. C. Historical Geography
48. ‘Imagining River Sarasvati - A Defence of Commonsense’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Kolkata session, pub. 2001.
49. ‘India in the Seventh Century: a survey of Political Geography’, (with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Calicut session, 2000.
50. ‘Mapping the Evolution and Diffusion of Humankind and India’s Place in it’, jointly with Faiz Habib, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Patiala session, 1999.
51. ‘The Historical Geography of India, 1800-800 BC’, jointly with Faiz Habib, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 53rd session, New Delhi, 1993.
52. ‘Mapping the Mauryan Empire’ (jointly with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,Gorakhpur, 1990.
53. ‘Mapping the Archaeological Cultures, B.C. 1800-800’ (jointly with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 49th Session, Dharwar, 1989.
54. ‘The Geography and Economy of the Indus Civilization-Text accompanying Map’ (jointly with Faiz Habib),Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Goa Session, 1988.
55. ‘The Economic Map of India, A.D. 1-300’ (jointly with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Srinagar Session, 1987.
56. ‘Political Geography of Northern India First Half of the Thirteenth Century’ (jointly with Faiz Habib),Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Bangalore session, 1998.
57. ‘A Map of India, 600-320 B.C.’, (jointly with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,Calcutta, 1996.
58. ‘A Map of India, B.C. 200 A.D. 300 Based on Epigraphic Evidence’, Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Calcutta session, 1991.
59. ‘Political Map of Northern India, first half of the Thirteenth Century’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Bangalore session, 1998.
60. “From Oxus to Yamuna (c.600-c.750)’ (jointly with Faiz Habib), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Aligarh, 1995.
61. ‘Cartography in Mughal India’, Medieval India — a Miscellany, ed.K.A. Nizami, Vol.IV, Bombay,1977.
62. ‘Sutlej and Beas in the Medieval Period’, The Geographer, Aligarh, Vol.6(2), 1954.

C. Medieval Political and Administrative History

63. Chapters on ‘The Delhi Sultanate‘ and ‘The Mughal Empire’ in J.S. Grewal (ed.), State and Society in Medieval India, Oxford, New Delhi, 2005.
64. ‘Formation of the Sultanate Ruling Class’, Medieval India, I, 1992.
65. ‘Review article on Andre Wink’s “Land and Sovereignty in India - Agrarian System and Politics under the Eighteenth Century Maratha Svarajya”,’ Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.XXV, No.4, Oct.-Dec.1988; and Reply to Wink’s rejoinder, IESHR, XXVI(3), 1989.
66. ‘The Mughal Administration and the Temples of Vrindavan during the Reigns of Jahangir and Shahjahan’,(jointly with Tarapada Mukherjee), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 49th Session, Dharwar,pub. 1989.
67. ‘Akbar and the Temples of Mathura and its Environs’ (jointly with Tarapada Mukherjee), Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Goa Session, 1988.
68. ‘Postal Communications in Mughal India’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Amritsar Session, 1985.
69. ‘Mansab salary scales under Jahangir and Shahjahan’, Islamic Culture, 4 IX, No.3, 1985.
70. ‘The Family of Nur Jahan during Jahangir’s Reign - a Political Study’ Medieval India - a Miscellany Vol.I, 1969.
71. ‘The Mansab System, 1595-1637’ Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Patiala session, 1968.

D. Modern Indian Economy and Society

72. ‘Processes of accumulation in pre-colonial and colonial India’, Indian Historical Review, Vol.XI, No.1-2, 1985/1988.
73. ‘Studying a colonial economy without perceiving colonialism’, Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge,19(2), 1985.
74. ‘Marx’s Perceptions of India’, Marx on India and Indonesia, Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier, 1983; & inMarxist, Delhi, Vol.I, No.1, 1983.
75. ‘Colonialization of the Indian Economy’, Social Scientist, No.32, 1973.

E. Anti-Colonial Resistance

76. ‘The Coming of 1857’, in: Indian People in the Struggle for Freedom, Sahmat, 1998.
77. ‘The Left in the National Movement’, in ibid.
78. ‘Civil Disobedience, 1930-31’, Social Scientist, Vol.25 (8-9) 1997.
79. ‘The Formation of India – Notes on the History of an Idea’, Social Scientist, Vol.25 (7-8), 1997.
80. ‘Gandhiji’, in: Addressing Gandhi, Sahmat, New Delhi, 1995.
81. ‘Gandhi and the National Movement’, Social Scientist, Vol.23 (4-6), 1995.

F. Historiography

82. ‘In Defence of Orientalism: Critical Notes on Edward Said’, Social Scientist, Vol.33(1-2) (2005), andInternational Socialism, London, Autumn, 2005.
83. ‘What Makes the World Change — the long view’, pub. Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, 2003.
84. ‘Timur in the Political Tradition and Historiography of Mughal India’, in L’Heritage timouride, ed. Maria S Zuppe, Tashkent, 1997.
85. ‘Problems of Marxist Historiography’. Social Scientist, No.187, 1988.
86. ‘Theories of Social Change in South Asia’, The Journal of Social Studies, Dhaka, Vol.33.
87. ‘Barani’s theory of the history of Delhi Sultanate’, Indian Historical Review, Vol.7, Nos.1-2, 1980-81.
88. ‘Problems of Marxist Historical Analysis’, Science and Human Progress - Prof.D.D. Kosambi Commemoration Volume 1974; and in Enquiry, NS. No.III(2)19.
89. ‘India look at herself’, Times Literary Supplement, No.3, 361, July 28, 1966.
90. ‘An examination of Wittfogel’s Theory of Oriental Despotism’, Enquiry, 6, 1961.
91. ‘Historians of Medieval India and the Process of National Integration’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 1961, Session; and in The Punjab Past and Present, Vol.VI-1, 1972.
92. ‘Problems of the Study of the Economic History of Medieval India’, Problems of Historical Writings in India, ed. S. Gopal and Romila Thapar, Delhi, 1963.

G. Intellectual History

93. ‘Persian Writing and Book Use in the Pre-Printing Age’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,66th Session, Santiniketan, 2005.
94. ‘A Fragmentary Exploration of an Indian Text on Religion and Sects: Notes on the Earlier Version of the Dabistan-i Mazahib’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Kolkata session, 2001.
95. ‘Ziya Barani’s Vision of the State’, The Medieval History Journal, SAGE, II (1), 1999.
96. ‘A Political Theory for the Mughal Empire — a Study of the Ideas of Abu’l Fazl’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Patiala session, pub. 1999.
97. ‘The Formation of India: Notes on the History of an Idea’, Social Scientist, Nos.290-91 (1997), pub.1998.
98. ‘A Documentary History of the Gosains of the Chaitanya Sect of Vrindaban’, IHC, 51 Session, Calcutta 1990. Margaret H. Case (ed.), Govindadeva. A Dialogue in Stone, New Delhi, 1996.
99. “Medieval Popular Monotheism and its Humanism - the Historical Setting’, Social Scientist, No.235,1993.
100. ‘Akbar and His Age’, Social Scientist, No.232-3, 1992.
101. ‘Reason and Science in Medieval India’, Society and Ideology in India: Essays in Honour of Professor R.S. Sharma, ed. D.N. Jha, New Delhi, 1996, pp.163-74.
102. ‘Reason and History’, Zakir Husain Memorial Lecture, ‘Zakir Husain College, New Delhi, 1994.
103. ‘The Political Role of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi and Shah Waliullah’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Aligarh, Session, 1960.

H. Islamic History

104. ‘A study of Hajjaj bin Yusuf’s outlook and policies in the light of the Chachnama’, Bulletin of the Institute of Islamic Studies, Nos. 6&7, 1962-3. J. Archaeology
105. Critique of the Archaeological Survey of India’s Report on Babri Masjid Excavations, Ayodhya’, Frontline, 26 September 2003/ A.G. Noorani (ed.), The Babri Masjid Question, I, Tulika, New Delhi,2003, pp.163-168.
106. ‘Unreason and Archaeology- The Painted Grey-Ware and Beyond’, Social Scientist, Vol.25, Nos.1-2, Jan-Feb.1997.

I. Capitalism, Imperialism, Socialism

107. ‘Capital Accumulation and the Exploitation of the Unequal World — Insights from a Debate withinMarxism’, Essays Presented to Professor Hiren Mukherjee, Kolkata, 2002.
108. ‘Capitalism in History’, Social Scientist, 266-8, Nos.7-9. July-Sept 1995.
109. ‘The Marxian Theory of Socialism and the Experience of Socialist Societies’, Social Scientist, Vol.21,Nos.5-6, May-June, 1993.

J. Language and History

110. On the Doorsteps of Historical Linguistics — A Note on Mughal Lexicography, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 65th session, Bareilly, 2004.
111. “Linguistic Materials From Eighth-Century Sind: An Exploration of the Chachnama” Symposia Papers:IHC 55 Session’, Aligarh 1994.

K. Contemporary History

112. ‘Fifty Years of Independence: A Historical Survey’, Fifty Years of Indian Art, Institutions, Issues,Concepts and Conversations , Ed. Bina Sarkar Ellias, Mumbai, 1997.
113. ‘Emergence of Nationalities in India’, Social Scientist, No.37, 1976.
114. ‘The Role of Marxist Intellectuals in India Today’, Social Scientist, I(5), 1972.