The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707 (Third Edition) by Irfan Habib

The book should be of use to both the general reader and the student, in that it covers topics that a people’s history should especially deal with, namely, factors affecting the lives of ordinary people, and also those that history textbooks are normally concerned with. In addition, there are seven maps and twenty-four illustrations, being mainly reproductions of coins and sculpture. There are special notes (by way of technical aids) on the Puranas, the Shangam texts and Kushan chronology and on Numismatics and elementary concepts of Economics. It examines areas like agricultural production and technology trade in.

Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive account of land revenue, administration, agrarian economy, and social structure in India during the Mughal period. in OUP Catalogue from Oxford University Press. He had been Coordinator/Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, in 197594. As with other volumes of the series, translations of select inscriptions and extracts from texts are appended to each chapter. The Agrarian System of Mughal India: 1556-1707. Watch on A prolific scholar, Professor Habib has authored many notable books in the field of history, such as Agrarian System in Mughal India (1556-1707) and the People’s History of India series. from this unavoidable handicap due to the On the whole, this book is a brilliant piece of passage of time and the depredations of work. (The changes in the caste system and cultural life during this long period will be treated in a separate volume.) A special feature of the present volume is that the information contained is based on fully updated material. the agrarian history of Mughul provinces will Some of the buildings which da Cunha mark the next stage for a firmer reconstruction describes can no longer be traced but apart of the revenue system of Mughul India. The volume also offers a detailed survey of the economy of the period, which saw important changes, in craft production as well as overseas trade. Post-Mauryan India, 200 BC – AD 300: A Political and Economic History, as part of the People’s History of India series, deals with the five hundred years that, in the political sphere, are associated with the dominance of Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushans and Satavahanas.

The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707 (Third Edition) by Irfan Habib