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Preface
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PRABHAT PATNAIK l
SECTION 1
l The J!.gveda: Encapsulating Social Change
ROMILA THAPAR l 1
2 Aryanization oft he Indus Civilization
SURAJ BHAN 41
3 Feudal Social Formation in Indian History
OSAMU KONDO 56
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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 and SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM 104
6 Levelling or Differentiation? Production and
Appropriation Relations in Mughal India
J. MOHAN RAO 141
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7 Rural and Urban Caste Structure in Eighteenth
Nineteenth Century India: The Deccan and Gujarat
HIROYUJ<I !<OTANI 179
8 Palashi: The Inside Story of a Betrayal
BIPLAB DASGUPTA 202
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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 PATNAIJ< 359
SECTION 4
13 Modernity and Its Philosophic Visions
JAVEEDALAM 405
14 Postmodemism in History
AIJAZAHMAD 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
MALIN! BHATTACHARYA 515
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Culture, Nationalism and Communal Politics
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K.N. PANIKKAR 533
India's Partition Revisited
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MUSHIRUL HASAN 550
Class, Clientelism and Communal Politics in
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Contemporary Bangladesh
MUSHTAQ H. KHAN 572
21 Ayodhya: A Review of the Archaeological Evidence
K.M. SHRIMALI 607
SECTION 6
22 State Enterprise Reform and the Political Economy
of'Transition'
C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR 625
23 A Simple Model of an Imaginary Socialist Economy
PRABHAT PATNAIIC 640
Contributors 658
Irfan Habib: A List ofP ublications 660
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he project of a festschrift for Irfan Habib started nearly four
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years ago, and it has been completed in time for his sixty
eighth birthday on August 12. Putting together this collection
ofp apers in honour of Irfan Habib, has been a very enjoyable task for
the editors. When one tries to analyse the reason for this it is clear that
it has to do Irfan Habib himself. as Marxist scholar and historian, his
bas been a towering presence on the Indian intellectual scene during
the last four decades. His truly formidable academic reputation, al
ready firmly established in the early sixties, has gained in depth as the
boundaries of narrow professional specialization were broken in the
succeeding years, and the intellectual project was broadened to con
sider the origins and ideological dimensions of the Indian nationalist,
anti-imperialist movement as a whole. Scholars in India and abroad
felt privileged to be able to record their appreciation through a contri
bution to the volume.
Given the range of Irfan Habib's interests and contributions,
we decided that the festschrift should also reflect this as far as possible.
Therefore, there are not only historians but political scientists and
economists, not only those specializing in the medieval period but also
theorists of modem India, the theorists of culture and the theorists of
imaginary socialist systems, who have contributed to this volume.
While a loose structuring of the volume in terms of groups of papers
has been attempted, there are no hard and fast dividing lines between
the sections, which have been left deliberately untitled.
There were some problems: an initial writer's block as many
scholars thought that what they bad written was perhaps not good
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enough, so that for a year and a half few final contributions came in;
followed by a veritable flood of papers. We are sorry that it has not
been possible to ask all those who might have liked to have contributed.
Some scholars who had prepared draft papers, have regretted not being
able to meet the final deadline; we hope to carry their tribute to lrfan
Habib elsewhere, at a later date.
On behalf of the editors I would like to thank the contributors,
and all the people whose dedicated work has made this volume possi
ble: Rajendra Prasad, whose advice and incessant goading kept us on
our toes; Salima Tyabji, who meticulously copy-edited all the papers;
Ram Rahman, who designed the cover; Indira Chandrasekhar, our
publisher, and Pum.ima Joshi, who together miraculously kept to the
deadline even though the last paper arrived only a month before the
book was to be ready in its final form; and the staff at the Tulika offices,
who worked overtime to complete the project.
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