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020 _a8185229627
082 _a954
_bIRF/E
100 _aIrfan habib
245 _aEssays in Indian history : towards a Marxist perception
260 _aNew Delhi
_bTulika
_c2005
300 _a381p.
520 _aThis collection brings together, for the first time, several seminal essays by Professor Irfan Habib interpreting the main currents in Indian history from a Marxist perspective. They cover a wide range of issues: the nature of evolution of caste through the centuries, the role played by the peasantry in Indian history, the forms of class struggle and the stage of development of the economy in Mughal India, the impact of colonialism on the Indian economy, the changes in Marx's perceptions of India, the problems of Marxist historiography. Representing three decades of scholarship, each essay in this collection is painstakingly researched and unfailingly stimulating.
650 _aHistorical materialism
650 _aIndia
942 _cBK
999 _c62701
_d62701