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IRFAN HABIB is a historian. He is the author of Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556-1707; An Atlas of the Mughal Empire, and Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception. In the present series he has authored Prehistory (2001) and the Indus Civilization (2002), and been the co-author of The Vedic Age (2003).

• A People's History of India Vol. 3 : The Vedic Age
This monograph, dealing with the period c 1500 to c 700 bc explores aspects of geography, migrations, technology, economy, society, religion, and philosophy. It draws on these texts to reconstruct the life of the ordinary people, with special attention paid to class as well as gender. In a separate chapter, the major regional cultures as revealed by archaeological evidence are carefully described.

• A People's History of India - Vol 4 : Mauryan India
Constructed out of the varied sources available, epigraphic, textual and archaeological. this book covers the period from about 350 BC to about 185BC, thereby encompassing the invasion of Alexander (327-325 BC ) and the history of the Mauryan Empire (c 324-185 BC).

• The Vedic Age - A People's History of India Vol. 3
The Vedic Age completes the first set of three monographs in the People’s History of India series. It deals with the period c 1500 to c. 700 bc, during which it sets the Rigveda and the subsequent Vedic corpus.

• The Growth of Civilizations in India And Iran
The essays in the present volume are an effort to explore how much the growth of civilizations in India and Iran owes to what each of these countries has received from the other, and to bring out how much of their history we will miss if we overlook the heritage they share.

• Confronting Colonialism - Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan
This volume of essays with an introduction by Professor Irfan Habib commemorates the second centenary of Tipu’s final battle against the British at Srirangapatnam in 1799.

• Sikh History from Persian Sources
This volume presents translations of all major Persian sources of Sikh history unto 1765, when Sikh power was established over the Punjab, and is a part of the research and publication program of the Indian History Congress to commemorate the tercentenary of the Khalsa.

• Essays in Indian History - Towards a Marxist Perception

• Akbar and His India
The 1992 national celebrations of the 450th birth anniversary of Akbar provided a much-needed impetus to research on Akbar and his times, and some of the results of such research are brought together in this volume.

• India - Studies in the History of an Idea
What India means may elicit different answers from people today. The answers that might have been given a thousand, two thousand or three thousand years ago would have been possibly quite different. This volume explores how notions of India have grown: even as a geographical expression. Political factors and cultural diffusion both helped in the formation.

• State & Diplomacy under Tipu Sultan - Documents and Essays
This volume is a supplement to 'Confusing Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan' which was published as part of Srirangapatnam bicentennial.

• People’s History of India Part 2 : The Indus Civilization
The Indus Civilization is the second monograph in the People’s History of India series. It continues the story from the point reached in the earlier monograph, Prehistory. The dominant theme here is provided by the Indus civilization.

• People's History of India - Part 1: Prehistory
In this prehistory, now also available in paperback edition, Irfan Habib describes the earliest ages of human life in India long before the existence of written record.

• The Growth of Civilization in India & Iran
This volume originated in papers presented at a panel on the historical relationships between India and Iran organized under the auspicious of the Aligarh Historians Society. The essays in this volume are an effort to explore how much the growth of civilizations in India and Iran owes to what each of these countries has received from the other, and to bring out how much of their history we will miss if we overlook the heritage they share.

• A World to Win - Essays on the Communist Manifesto
Edited, with an introduction by Prakash Karat, the present volume contains essays by three of India's foremost Marxist scholars, Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib and Prabhat Patnaik, who explain the relevance of the Manifesto in terms of Marxist theory and praxis.

• People's History of India 1 - Prehistory
This monograph, which is a part of a larger project, a People's History of India, describes the earliest ages of human life in India, long before the existence of written records.

• The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707
This is a new edition of a classic first published in 1963. It contains much that is fresh in both description and perception. There is also an expanded bibliography, a new descriptive index, and new illustrations and maps.

• Medieval India - 1
The papers collected in this volume, covering the period from 1200 to 1750, aim at exploring new themes without abating the rigor of the orientalist tradition.

• The Cambridge Economic History of India - Volume I: 1200-1750
The two-volume Cambridge Economic History of India has served as the single most widely consulted and cited reference for over twenty years. This volume covers a spectrum of socio-economic views on, and reviews of 1200-1500, the pre-Mughal period. The first volume of this work was published in 1922. Explaining its raison d’etre, the editor, Professor E J Rapson, referred to the vast accumulation of knowledge on Indian history and the consequent need for an authoritative summary.

• Indian People in the Struggle for Freedom
Nationalism is conventionally associated with the emergence of the bourgeoisie. The feudal order is characterized by localism while the hallmark of socialism is its internationalism. This book carries five essays contirubuted by eminent historians.

• Towards a Secular & Modern India - Gandhi Reconsidered
A collection of 5 essays by eminent historians examining Gandhi's political philosophy as reflected in his work Hind Swaraj.Organized as a dialogue with an unidentified interlocutor, Hind Swaraj was a book that he insisted till his last days, represented the clearest distillate of his political philosophy. An early biography of Gandhi holds that the interlocutor Gandhi engaged with, was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

• A World to Win - Essays on the Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is among the most widely read and disseminated texts in the world. It has been more influential in the making of the modern world than any other piece of political writing. Edited, with an introduction by Prakash Karat, the present volume contains essays by three of India's foremost Marxist scholars, Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib and Prabhat Patnaik, who explain the relevance of the Manifesto in terms of Marxist theory and praxis.

• The Cambridge Economic History of India - Volume ONE
The two-volume Cambridge Economic History of India has served as the single most widely consulted and cited reference for over twenty years. This volume covers a spectrum of socio-economic views on, and reviews of , c 1200-1500, the pre-Mughal period. It begins at the point from which a systematic treatment of Indian economic history becomes possible. It closes on the eve of the subjugation of the country and its economy by Britain.

• Karl Marx on India
Karl Marx’s articles in the New York Daily Tribune constitute a separate genre among his works, being originally published in English and based on events in various countries in the world.The perception of pre-colonial and colonial India that he put forth in this set of articles make them real classic on Indian history.

• A People's History of India - Vol 4: Mauryan India
This book, as part of the People’s History of India series, covers the period from about 350 BC to about 185BC, thereby encompassing the invasion of Alexander (327-325 BC ) and the history of the Mauryan Empire (c 324-185 BC).

• A People's History of India - Indian Economy 1858-1914
The monograph surveys the developments within the Indian economy during the period of the high tide of colonial domination between the 1857 Rebellion and the First World War. There are extracts from contemporary comments and reports; technical notes on such matters as computing national income, counterfactual analysis, etc.

• Technology in Medieval India 650 - 1750
This book covers an important aspect of our history, on which no general work or textbook yet exists. It aims at covering the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomers and the equipage and weaponry of war.The Aligarh Historians Society, the sponsor of the project of A People's History of India, is dedicated to the cause of promoting the scientific method in history and resisting communal and chauvinistic interpretations.

• A People's History of India Volume 36 - Man and Environment : The Ecological History of India
Increasing interest has been shown in recent decades in matters relating to ecology, especially under the influence of the debate on climate change. The scope of ecology is, of course, much wider than that of climate alone. It is with this wider sense in mind that the history of ecology has been treated in this volume.

• Religion In Indian History
The editor’s introduction and the fifteen chapters of this informative book, range over an extensive period, from pre-history to the present day, and take up specific problems of crucial significance in exploring the inter-relationship between religion and social change.

• Medieval India - The Study of a Civilization
The period spanning 600 AD to 1750 AD is perceived as the long phase of India's transition from the ancient to the immediately pre-colonial times. Drawing upon primary materials, archival records, historical narratives and accounts of travelers and European commercial records, the book is an authoritative introduction to this era.

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