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Irfan Habib</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><p><b>Irfan Habib</b> (born 10 August 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of <a href="/wiki/Marxist_historiography" title="Marxist historiography">Marxist historiography</a> in his contributions to economic history. He is known for his strong stance against <a href="/wiki/Hindutva" title="Hindutva">Hindutva</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">Islamic fundamentalism</a>. He has authored a number of books, notably the <i>Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707</i>, an <i>Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps with Detailed Notes</i>, and an <i>Atlas of Ancient Indian History</i> (with Faiz Habib). As the general editor, he is also the driving force behind the <i>A People's History of India</i> series, volumes of which continue to be released. </p><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Irfan Habib</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Irfan_Habib.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="black-and-white image of Irfan Habib wearing a white shirt, sitting at a desk with a binder clip in right hand, looking right of camera" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Irfan_Habib.jpg/250px-Irfan_Habib.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Irfan_Habib.jpg/375px-Irfan_Habib.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Irfan_Habib.jpg/500px-Irfan_Habib.jpg 2x" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="499"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Habib in 2011</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1931-08-10</span>) </span>10 August 1931<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 93)</span><br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Baroda" class="mw-redirect" title="Baroda">Baroda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baroda_State" title="Baroda State">Baroda State</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a><br>(now <a href="/wiki/Vadodara" title="Vadodara">Vadodara</a>, Gujarat, India)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aligarh_Muslim_University" title="Aligarh Muslim University">Aligarh Muslim University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Sayera Habib</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Habib" title="Mohammad Habib">Mohammad Habib</a> (father)</li><li>Sohaila Habib (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abbas_Tyabji" title="Abbas Tyabji">Abbas Tyabji</a> (maternal grandfather)<br><a href="/wiki/Tyabji_family" title="Tyabji family">Tyabji family</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Watumull_Prize" title="Watumull Prize">Watumull Prize</a> (1982)<sup id="cite_ref-historians.org_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historians.org-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <p><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> (2005) </p> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category">History</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data">C.C. Davies</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Early_and_personal_life"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early and personal life</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Academic"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Academic</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Positions"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Positions</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Philosophical_and_political_views"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Philosophical and political views</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Honours"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Honours</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Selected_publications"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Selected publications</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Early_and_personal_life">Early and personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Irfan_Habib&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early and personal life" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Irfan_habib.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Irfan_habib.jpg/140px-Irfan_habib.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="548" data-file-height="644"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 140px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Irfan_habib.jpg/140px-Irfan_habib.jpg" data-width="140" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Irfan_habib.jpg/210px-Irfan_habib.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Irfan_habib.jpg/280px-Irfan_habib.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Irfan Habib, 2007</figcaption></figure> <p>Habib was born into an Indian Muslim family. He was the son of <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Habib" title="Mohammad Habib">Mohammad Habib</a> and Sohaila Habib (née Tyabji).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His paternal grandfather was Mohammad Naseem, a wealthy barrister and member of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress party</a>, and his maternal grandfather was <a href="/wiki/Abbas_Tyabji" title="Abbas Tyabji">Abbas Tyabji</a>, sometime the Chief Justice of the High Court of <a href="/wiki/Baroda_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Baroda state">Baroda princely state</a>, and noted follower of Mahatma Gandhi.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Habib's wife Sayera Habib (née Siddiqui) was Professor of Economics at <a href="/wiki/Aligarh_Muslim_University" title="Aligarh Muslim University">Aligarh Muslim University</a> (AMU).<sup id="cite_ref-agrarianmughal_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-agrarianmughal-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple have three sons and a daughter. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Academic">Academic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Irfan_Habib&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Academic" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>After returning from Oxford, Habib joined AMU as a member of the faculty; he was Professor of History at Aligarh from 1969 to 1991 and is presently a <a href="/wiki/Emeritus" title="Emeritus">Professor Emeritus</a>. He delivered the Radhakrishnan Lecture at Oxford in 1991. Habib is an Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Historical_Society" title="Royal Historical Society">Royal Historical Society</a> since 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Habib has worked on the <a href="/wiki/Historical_geography" title="Historical geography">historical geography</a> of <a href="/wiki/History_of_India" title="History of India">Ancient India</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_ancient_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Science and technology in ancient India">history of Indian technology</a>, medieval administrative and <a href="/wiki/Economic_history" title="Economic history">economic history</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">colonialism</a> and its impact on Indian <a href="/wiki/Historiography" title="Historiography">historiography</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Amiya_Kumar_Bagchi" title="Amiya Kumar Bagchi">Amiya Kumar Bagchi</a> describes Habib as "one of the two most prominent Marxist historians of India today and at the same time, one of the greatest living Marxist historians of India between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Positions">Positions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Irfan_Habib&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Positions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <p>He was Coordinator/Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Studies, AMU from 1975 to 1977 and from 1984 to 1994. He was Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research during 1986–90.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the general secretary, Sectional President, and then the General President of the Indian History Congress (1981).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Philosophical_and_political_views">Philosophical and political views</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Irfan_Habib&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Philosophical and political views" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <p>Habib uses Marxist historiography in his work.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Habib has also written books about <a href="/wiki/Vedas" title="Vedas">Vedas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vedic_period" title="Vedic period">Vedic age</a>, and he considers the Vedas to be a good historical source, which describes transmission in a priestly culture, that valued faithfulness. He further lays out the reasons that the texts were orally transmitted for hundreds of years, then they were finally written down.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Habib has a sustained commitment to <a href="/wiki/Secularism" title="Secularism">secularism</a>. He led the historians at the <a href="/wiki/Indian_History_Congress" title="Indian History Congress">Indian History Congress</a> of 1998 who moved a resolution against the "<a href="/wiki/Saffronisation" title="Saffronisation">saffronisation</a>" of history.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has said that the <a href="/wiki/BJP" class="mw-redirect" title="BJP">BJP</a> government at the Centre which was in power from 1998 to 2004, especially the <a href="/wiki/MHRD" class="mw-redirect" title="MHRD">MHRD</a> Minister himself, were responsible for inventing facts and dates to suit their interpretation of Indian history.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To counter Irfan Habib, <a href="/wiki/Murli_Manohar_Joshi" title="Murli Manohar Joshi">Murli Manohar Joshi</a> released a book which rebuts the history of what the former minister calls "Habib & Co".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Habib condemned a decision led by the BJP which removed chapters on Muslim rule, including the <a href="/wiki/Mughals" class="mw-redirect" title="Mughals">Mughals</a>, from some school textbooks, along with references to Muslims' contributions to the country's freedom struggle. He argues that these revisions aim to deny Muslims their place in India's history and are part of an Islamophobic agenda.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Irfan_Habib&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Honours" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <ul><li>Among the first six <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Fellowship" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship">Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowships</a>, 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watumull_Prize" title="Watumull Prize">Watumull Prize</a> of <a href="/wiki/American_Historical_Association" title="American Historical Association">American Historical Association</a>, 1982. (Jointly with <a href="/wiki/Tapan_Raychaudhuri" title="Tapan Raychaudhuri">Tapan Raychaudhuri</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-historians.org_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historians.org-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a>, Government of India, 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honorary_doctorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary doctorate">Honorary doctorate</a> (<a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Letters" title="Doctor of Letters">D.Litt</a>) by <a href="/wiki/University_of_Calicut" title="University of Calicut">University of Calicut</a>, 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Yash Bharti, 2016<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Fellow, New College, Oxford, 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Irfan_Habib&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Selected publications" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <dl><dt>Books authored</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556–1707</i>. First published in 1963 by Asia Publishing House. Second, extensively revised, edition published in 1999 by <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>.</li> <li><i>An Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps With Detailed Notes</i>, Bibliography, and Index. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 1982</li> <li><i>Essays in Indian History – Towards a Marxist Perception</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 1995.</li> <li><i>The Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2001.</li> <li><i>Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization</i>. <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Trust" title="National Book Trust">National Book Trust</a>, 2008.</li> <li><i>People's History of India – Part 1: Prehistory</i>. Aligarh Historians Society and <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2001.</li> <li><i>People's History of India Part 2 : The Indus Civilization</i>. Aligarh Historians Society and <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2002.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India Vol. 3 : The Vedic Age</i>. (Co-author Vijay Kumar Thakur) Aligarh Historians Society and <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2003.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 4/5 : Mauryan India</i>. (Co-author Vivekanand Jha) Aligarh Historians Society and <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2004.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 6 : Post-Mauryan India, 200 BC – AD 300</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2013.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 14 : Economic History of India, AD 1206–1526, The Period of the Delhi Sultanate and the Vijayanagara Empire</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2017.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 20 : Technology in Medieval India, c. 650–1750</i>. Aligarh Historians Society and <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2016.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 25 : Indian Economy Under Early British Rule, 1757–1857</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2014.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 28 : Indian Economy, 1858–1914</i>. Aligarh Historians Society and <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2006.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 30 : The National Movement: Origins and Early Phase to 1918</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2018.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 31 : The National Movement, Part 2: The Struggle for Freedom, 1919–1947</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2020.</li> <li><i>A People's History of India – Vol 36 : Man and Environment</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2015.</li> <li><i>The National Movement: Studies in Ideology & History</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2011.</li> <li><i>An Atlas of Ancient Indian History</i>. (with Faiz Habib) <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 2012.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Books edited</dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>The Cambridge Economic History of India</i> – Volume I: 1200–1750 (co-editor <a href="/wiki/Tapan_Raychaudhuri" title="Tapan Raychaudhuri">Tapan Raychaudhuri</a>)</li> <li><i>UNESCO History of Civilizations of Central Asia</i>, Vol 5 : Development in contrast: from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. (Co-editors Chahryar Adle and K M Baikapov)</li> <li><i>UNESCO History of Humanity</i>, Vol 4: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. (With various co-editors).</li> <li><i>UNESCO History of Humanity</i>, Vol 5: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. (With various co-editors).</li> <li><i>The Growth of Civilizations in India And Iran</i></li> <li><i>Sikh History from Persian Sources: Translations of Major Texts</i>. (with J.S. Grewal) Indian History Congress and <a href="/wiki/Tulika_Books" title="Tulika Books">Tulika Books</a>, 2011.</li> <li><i>Akbar and His India</i></li> <li><i>India – Studies in the History of an Idea</i>.</li> <li><i>State & Diplomacy under Tipu Sultan</i></li> <li><i>Confronting Colonialism</i></li> <li><i>Medieval India</i> – 1</li> <li><i>A World to Win</i> – Essays on the Communist Manifesto (co-editors Aijaz Ahmed and <a href="/wiki/Prakash_Karat" title="Prakash Karat">Prakash Karat</a>)</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Irfan_Habib&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span 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