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Irfan Habib (born 10 August 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history.
Syed Irfan Habib (born 1953) is an Indian historian of science and public intellectual. He was the former Abul Kalam Azad Chair at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration.
Sep 18, 2021 · Irfan Habib pointed out how the Nazi idea of Aryan supremacy was imported into India and referred to the role played by V.D. Savarkar and M.S. Golwalkar in making it a central feature...
Prof. Irfan Habib is a renowned historian and a former chairman of the Department of History, AMU, Aligarh, India. He has authored several books and articles on medieval and modern Indian history, social and economic history, and historiography. He has also received many awards and honors for his academic contributions. Learn more about his life and work by visiting his webpage.
Dec 8, 2017 · Renowned marxist historian, Professor Irfan Habib of Aligarh Muslim University, on Mahatma Gandhi, modern India, nationalism, RSS, contemporary culture debates and history as a discipline in this long-form, in-depth interview.
Irfan Habib, K. N. Panikkar, T. J. Byres, Utsa Patnaik. Anthem Press, 2002 - Business & Economics - 678 pages. A Marxist scholar and historian, Irfan Habib has been a towering presence in the...
IRFAN HABIB* The Formation of India- Notes on the History of an Idea * * Marc Bloch, the great French historian and Resistance martyr, began his last book The Historian's Craft by referring to his son's question to him, "Of what use is History?" The boy could well have asked, "How much can His- tory be abused?"
In this timely and succinct essay, Irfan Habib charts India’s struggle to consolidate a nationalist identity, to identify what it sought to be free from. Even as the colonial regime denied the very possibility of nationalism in the subcontinent, opposition to British rule fomented just such a sentiment.
This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents...
Celebrating Irfan Habib. by the British - in his essays on such interrelated themes as capital accumu- lation in precolonial and colonial India, and colonisation of the Indian economy, DD N JHA in his review of the Cambridge Economic. History of India (Volume 11), which stud-.
