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The making of history : essays presented to Irfan Habib / edited by K.N. Panikkar, Terence J. Byres, Utsa Patnaik.
LIBRA DS423 .M2615 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthem South Asian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Civilization.
- India.
- Civilization.
- India--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- India--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- x, 678 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- A Marxist scholar and historian, Irfan Habib has been a towering presence on the Indian intellectual scene for over four decades. His formidable intellectual reputation, established in the sixties with the publication of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, broadened as he became an authority in the entire area of Indian history from ancient to modern. Professor Habib's undiminished commitment to the cause of socialism is reflected in these highly original and bold analyses of Marxist historiography and theories of socialist construction.
- This volume comprises essays from scholars around the world representing the wide variety of Habib's interests and contributions. Ranging from history to politics and economics, the essays cover both the medieval period and modern India, as well as theories for the future of this emerging superpower.
- This special edition also features an essay by Irfan Habib originally published as The Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey, covering the Delhi Sultanate, the Vijayanagara economy and the economy of Mughal India.
- Contents:
- Irfan Habib / Prabhat Patnaik 1
- 1 The Rgveda: Encapsulating Social Change / Romila Thapar 11
- 2 Aryanization of the Indus Civilization / Suraj Bhan 41
- 3 Feudal Social Formation in Indian History / Osamu Kondo 56
- 4 Muskets in the Mawas: Instruments of Peasant Resistance / Iqtidar Alam Khan 81
- 5 Witnessing Transition: Views on the End of the Akbari Dispensation / Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam 104
- 6 Levelling or Differentiation? Production and Appropriation Relations in Mughal India / J. Mohan Rao 141
- 7 Rural and Urban Caste Structure in Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century India: The Deccan and Gujarat / Hiroyuki Kotani 179
- 8 Palashi: The Inside Story of a Betrayal / Biplab Dasgupta 202
- 9 Pre-capitalist Economic Formations and Differential Agricultural Productivity: A Tentative Hypothesis / Terence J. Byres 239
- 10 Workers and the Historians' Burden / Amiya Kumar Bagchi 276
- 11 The Indian Economic Experience 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study / Shireen Moosvi 328
- 12 New Estimates of Eighteenth-Century British Trade and Their Relation to Transfers from Tropical Colonies / Utsa Patnaik 359
- 13 Modernity and Its Philosophic Visions / Javeed Alam 405
- 14 Postmodernism in History / Aijaz Ahmad 440
- 15 Realism and the Syntax of Difference: Narratives of the Bengal Famine / Mihir Bhattacharya 478
- 16 Archaeology and Nationalism: The Case of Medieval Gaur / Ratnabali Chatterjee 500
- 17 The Rural Artist and Secular Culture in the Era of Globalization / Malini Bhattacharya 515
- 18 Culture, Nationalism and Communal Politics / K.N. Panikkar 533
- 19 India's Partition Revisited / Mushirul Hasan 550
- 20 Class, Clientelism and Communal Politics in Contemporary Bangladesh / Mushtaq H. Khan 572
- 21 Ayodhya: A Review of the Archaeological Evidence / K.M. Shrimali 607
- 22 State Enterprise Reform and the Political Economy of 'Transition' / C.P. Chandrasekhar 625
- 23 A Simple Model of an Imaginary Socialist Economy / Prabhat Patnaik 640
- Irfan Habib: A List of Publications 660.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Irfan Habib: a list of publications": pages 660-668.
- ISBN:
- 1843310538
- 1843310384
- OCLC:
- 51274961
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