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Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib (born August 10, 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He identifies as a Marxist and is well known for his strong stance against Hindutva and Islamic fundamentalism. He has authored a number of books, notably the Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707, an Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps With Detailed Notes, and an Atlas of Ancient Indian History (with Faiz Habib). As the general editor, he is also the driving force behind the A People's History of India series, volumes of which continue to be released.

Irfan Habib
Habib in Aligarh, November 2011
Born (1931-08-10) 10 August 1931 (age 92)
CitizenshipIndian
Alma mater
SpouseSayera Habib
Parents
RelativesAbbas Tyabji (maternal grandfather)
Tyabji family
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
Doctoral advisorC.C. Davies

Early and personal life Edit

 
Irfan Habib – 2007

Habib was born in an Indian Muslim family, the son of Mohammad Habib, a Marxist historian and ideologue belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), by his wife Sohaila Habib (née Tyabji).[2] His paternal grandfather was Mohammad Naseem, a wealthy barrister and member of the Congress party, and his maternal grandfather was Abbas Tyabji, sometime Chief Justice of the High Court of Baroda princely state, and noted follower of Mahatma Gandhi.[3]

Habib's wife Sayera Habib (née Siddiqui) was Professor of Economics at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).[4] The couple have three sons and a daughter.

Academic Edit

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 Professor Emeritus. He delivered the Radhakrishnan Lecture at Oxford in 1991. Habib is an Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Royal Historical Society since 1997.[3]

Habib has worked on the historical geography of Ancient India, the history of Indian technology, medieval administrative and economic history, colonialism and its impact on Indian historiography.[3]

Amiya Kumar Bagchi 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."[5]

Positions Edit

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.[6] He was the general secretary, Sectional President, and then the General President of the Indian History Congress (1981).[3]

Philosophical and political views Edit

Habib identifies as a Marxist and uses Marxist historiography in his work.[7]

Habib has also written books about Vedas and Vedic age, 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.[8]

Habib has a sustained commitment to secularism. He led the historians at the Indian History Congress of 1998 who moved a resolution against the "saffronisation" of history.[9] He has said that the BJP government at the Centre which was in power from 1998 to 2004, especially the MHRD Minister himself, were responsible for inventing facts and dates to suit their interpretation of Indian history.[10] To counter Irfan Habib, Murli Manohar Joshi released a book which rebuts the history of what the former minister calls '‘Habib & Co'’.[11][3]

Honours Edit

Selected publications Edit

Books authored
  • The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556–1707. First published in 1963 by Asia Publishing House. Second, extensively revised, edition published in 1999 by Oxford University Press.
  • An Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps With Detailed Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Oxford University Press, 1982
  • Essays in Indian History – Towards a Marxist Perception. Tulika Books, 1995.
  • The Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey. Tulika Books, 2001.
  • Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization. National Book Trust, 2008.
  • People's History of India – Part 1: Prehistory. Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books, 2001.
  • People's History of India Part 2 : The Indus Civilization. Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books, 2002.
  • A People's History of India Vol. 3 : The Vedic Age. (Co-author Vijay Kumar Thakur) Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books, 2003.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 4/5 : Mauryan India. (Co-author Vivekanand Jha) Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books, 2004.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 6 : Post-Mauryan India, 200 BC – AD 300. Tulika Books, 2013.
  • 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. Tulika Books, 2017.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 20 : Technology in Medieval India, c. 650–1750. Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books, 2016.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 25 : Indian Economy Under Early British Rule, 1757–1857. Tulika Books, 2014.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 28 : Indian Economy, 1858–1914. Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books, 2006.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 30 : The National Movement: Origins and Early Phase to 1918. Tulika Books, 2018.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 31 : The National Movement, Part 2: The Struggle for Freedom, 1919–1947. Tulika Books, 2020.
  • A People's History of India – Vol 36 : Man and Environment. Tulika Books, 2015.
  • The National Movement: Studies in Ideology & History. Tulika Books, 2011.
  • An Atlas of Ancient Indian History. (with Faiz Habib) Oxford University Press, 2012.
Books edited
  • The Cambridge Economic History of India – Volume I: 1200–1750 (co-editor Tapan Raychaudhuri)
  • UNESCO History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol 5 : Development in contrast: from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. (Co-editors Chahryar Adle and K M Baikapov)
  • UNESCO History of Humanity, Vol 4: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. (With various co-editors).
  • UNESCO History of Humanity, Vol 5: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. (With various co-editors).
  • The Growth of Civilizations in India And Iran
  • Sikh History from Persian Sources: Translations of Major Texts. (with J.S. Grewal) Indian History Congress and Tulika Books, 2011.
  • Akbar and His India
  • India – Studies in the History of an Idea.
  • State & Diplomacy under Tipu Sultan
  • Confronting Colonialism
  • Medieval India – 1
  • A World to Win – Essays on the Communist Manifesto (co-editors Aijaz Ahmed and Prakash Karat)

References Edit

  1. ^ a b "Discontinued Awards – AHA". Historians.org.
  2. ^ . Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e Habib, Irfan (2002). The Making of History: Essays Presented to Irfan Habib. Anthem Press. p. 1. ISBN 9781843310389.
  4. ^ The Agrarian System of Mughal India, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-565595-8, Preface xv
  5. ^ Amiya Kumar Bagchi. Writing Indian History in the Marxist Mode in a Post-Soviet World, Review of Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception, Social Scientist, 1996.
  6. ^ . Ichr.ac.in. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  7. ^ Mitra, Ashok (14–27 October 2000). "A tribute to Irfan Habib". Frontline.in. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
  8. ^ The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future, p.271, Martha Nussabaum, Harvard University Press
  9. ^ "Singh, Bajinder Pal, 1998, Historians likely to resist'saffronisation'". The Indian Express.
  10. ^ "Government trying to invent history, says Habib", The Times of India
  11. ^ "NCERT brings out book to counter 'Habib & Co'". The Indian Express. 5 September 2003. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  12. ^ "Official list of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows (1969–present)". Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund.
  13. ^ "Archive News". The Hindu.
  14. ^ "Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences".
  15. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  16. ^ "प्रो. इरफान हबीब होंगे यश भारती से सम्मानित". Amarujala.com. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  17. ^ "CM presented Yash Bharati awards". Dailypioneer.com. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  18. ^ "Eminent achievers to get Yash Bharti Award today". The Times of India.
  19. ^ "Honorary Fellows, University of Oxford".

External links Edit

  • Note Towards a Marxist Perception of Indian History, The Marxist, Oct–Dec 2010.
  • "Delhi Historians Group's Publication "Communalization of Education: The History Textbooks Controversy", A report in 2002, New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • The Nation That Is India – an article by Irfan Habib, the little magazine, 2003.
  • [Usurped!]
  • 2001 Interview of Irfan Habib on Rediff
  • Historian: Prof Irfan Habib outlookindia.com. Magazine | 23 April 2007.

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driving force behind the A People s History of India series volumes of which continue to be released Irfan HabibHabib in Aligarh November 2011Born 1931 08 10 10 August 1931 age 92 Baroda Baroda State British India now Vadodara Gujarat India CitizenshipIndianAlma materAligarh Muslim University Oxford UniversitySpouseSayera HabibParentsMohammad Habib father Sohaila Habib mother RelativesAbbas Tyabji maternal grandfather Tyabji familyAwardsWatumull Prize 1982 1 Padma Bhushan 2005 Scientific careerFieldsHistoryDoctoral advisorC C Davies Contents 1 Early and personal life 2 Academic 3 Positions 4 Philosophical and political views 5 Honours 6 Selected publications 7 References 8 External linksEarly and personal life Edit nbsp Irfan Habib 2007Habib was born in an Indian Muslim family the son of Mohammad Habib a Marxist historian and ideologue belonging to the Communist Party of India Marxist by his wife Sohaila Habib nee Tyabji 2 His paternal grandfather was Mohammad Naseem a wealthy barrister and member of the Congress party and his maternal grandfather was Abbas Tyabji sometime Chief Justice of the High Court of Baroda princely state and noted follower of Mahatma Gandhi 3 Habib s wife Sayera Habib nee Siddiqui was Professor of Economics at Aligarh Muslim University AMU 4 The couple have three sons and a daughter Academic EditAfter 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 Professor Emeritus He delivered the Radhakrishnan Lecture at Oxford in 1991 Habib is an Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Royal Historical Society since 1997 3 Habib has worked on the historical geography of Ancient India the history of Indian technology medieval administrative and economic history colonialism and its impact on Indian historiography 3 Amiya Kumar Bagchi 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 5 Positions EditHe 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 6 He was the general secretary Sectional President and then the General President of the Indian History Congress 1981 3 Philosophical and political views EditHabib identifies as a Marxist and uses Marxist historiography in his work 7 Habib has also written books about Vedas and Vedic age 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 8 Habib has a sustained commitment to secularism He led the historians at the Indian History Congress of 1998 who moved a resolution against the saffronisation of history 9 He has said that the BJP government at the Centre which was in power from 1998 to 2004 especially the MHRD Minister himself were responsible for inventing facts and dates to suit their interpretation of Indian history 10 To counter Irfan Habib Murli Manohar Joshi released a book which rebuts the history of what the former minister calls Habib amp Co 11 3 Honours EditAmong the first six Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowships 1968 12 Watumull Prize of American Historical Association 1982 Jointly with Tapan Raychaudhuri 1 Padma Bhushan Government of India 2005 13 Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture 2009 14 Honorary doctorate D Litt by University of Calicut 2010 15 Yash Bharti 2016 16 17 18 Honorary Fellow New College Oxford 2021 19 Selected publications EditBooks authoredThe Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556 1707 First published in 1963 by Asia Publishing House Second extensively revised edition published in 1999 by Oxford University Press An Atlas of the Mughal Empire Political and Economic Maps With Detailed Notes Bibliography and Index Oxford University Press 1982 Essays in Indian History Towards a Marxist Perception Tulika Books 1995 The Economic History of Medieval India A Survey Tulika Books 2001 Medieval India The Study of a Civilization National Book Trust 2008 People s History of India Part 1 Prehistory Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books 2001 People s History of India Part 2 The Indus Civilization Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books 2002 A People s History of India Vol 3 The Vedic Age Co author Vijay Kumar Thakur Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books 2003 A People s History of India Vol 4 5 Mauryan India Co author Vivekanand Jha Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books 2004 A People s History of India Vol 6 Post Mauryan India 200 BC AD 300 Tulika Books 2013 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 Tulika Books 2017 A People s History of India Vol 20 Technology in Medieval India c 650 1750 Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books 2016 A People s History of India Vol 25 Indian Economy Under Early British Rule 1757 1857 Tulika Books 2014 A People s History of India Vol 28 Indian Economy 1858 1914 Aligarh Historians Society and Tulika Books 2006 A People s History of India Vol 30 The National Movement Origins and Early Phase to 1918 Tulika Books 2018 A People s History of India Vol 31 The National Movement Part 2 The Struggle for Freedom 1919 1947 Tulika Books 2020 A People s History of India Vol 36 Man and Environment Tulika Books 2015 The National Movement Studies in Ideology amp History Tulika Books 2011 An Atlas of Ancient Indian History with Faiz Habib Oxford University Press 2012 Books editedThe Cambridge Economic History of India Volume I 1200 1750 co editor Tapan Raychaudhuri UNESCO History of Civilizations of Central Asia Vol 5 Development in contrast from the sixteenth to the mid nineteenth century Co editors Chahryar Adle and K M Baikapov UNESCO History of Humanity Vol 4 From the seventh to the sixteenth century With various co editors UNESCO History of Humanity Vol 5 From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century With various co editors The Growth of Civilizations in India And Iran Sikh History from Persian Sources Translations of Major Texts with J S Grewal Indian History Congress and Tulika Books 2011 Akbar and His India India Studies in the History of an Idea State amp Diplomacy under Tipu Sultan Confronting Colonialism Medieval India 1 A World to Win Essays on the Communist Manifesto co editors Aijaz Ahmed and Prakash Karat References Edit a b Discontinued Awards AHA Historians org Obituary by Anil Nauriya in The Hindu Archived from the original on 6 November 2012 Retrieved 16 April 2022 a b c d e Habib Irfan 2002 The Making of History Essays Presented to Irfan Habib Anthem Press p 1 ISBN 9781843310389 The Agrarian System of Mughal India Oxford University Press 2004 ISBN 0 19 565595 8 Preface xv Amiya Kumar Bagchi Writing Indian History in the Marxist Mode in a Post Soviet World Review of Essays in Indian History Towards a Marxist Perception Social Scientist 1996 Indian Council of Historical Research New Delhi India Ichr ac in Archived from the original on 15 November 2018 Retrieved 22 July 2015 Mitra Ashok 14 27 October 2000 A tribute to Irfan Habib Frontline in Retrieved 9 April 2007 The Clash Within Democracy Religious Violence and India s Future p 271 Martha Nussabaum Harvard University Press Singh Bajinder Pal 1998 Historians likely to resist saffronisation The Indian Express Government trying to invent history says Habib The Times of India NCERT brings out book to counter Habib amp Co The Indian Express 5 September 2003 Retrieved 4 April 2022 Official list of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows 1969 present Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Archive News The Hindu Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences University of Calicut Former Honorary Degree Recipients PDF Archived from the original PDF on 7 November 2013 Retrieved 12 July 2020 प र इरफ न हब ब ह ग यश भ रत स सम म न त Amarujala com Retrieved 4 April 2022 CM presented Yash Bharati awards Dailypioneer com Retrieved 4 April 2022 Eminent achievers to get Yash Bharti Award today The Times of India Honorary Fellows University of Oxford External links Edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Irfan Habib Note Towards a Marxist Perception of Indian History The Marxist Oct Dec 2010 Delhi Historians Group s Publication Communalization of Education The History Textbooks Controversy A report in 2002 New Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru University India Selected publications of Irfan Habib The Nation That Is India an article by Irfan Habib the little magazine 2003 Review of The Making of History Essays Presented to Irfan Habib Usurped 2001 Interview of Irfan Habib on Rediff Historian Prof Irfan Habib outlookindia com Magazine 23 April 2007 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Irfan Habib 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