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Irfan Habib is an Indian historian of medieval and early modern South Asia whose research centers on the economy, agrarian relations, and state structures of Mughal India. He taught at Aligarh Muslim University and produced studies of land revenue, rural production, and the institutions connecting the Mughal state to the countryside. His book The Agrarian System of Mughal India, first published in 1963, is a detailed economic history of Mughal agrarian society.
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What did Irfan Habib study in Mughal India?
Irfan Habib studied agrarian relations, land revenue, rural production, and state structures in medieval and early modern South Asia. His work often treats economic records as evidence for how Mughal society actually functioned.
What is The Agrarian System of Mughal India about?
The book analyzes landholding, taxation, cultivation, labor, and revenue administration under the Mughal Empire. It is one of Habib's major studies of the economic foundations of Mughal rule.
Where did Irfan Habib teach?
Irfan Habib taught at Aligarh Muslim University in India. His research there became closely associated with the economic and social history of Mughal India.
Why is Irfan Habib important for studying the Mughal economy?
Habib emphasized rural production and the relationship between cultivators, landlords, revenue officials, and the imperial state. This approach makes the Mughal Empire understandable as an agrarian system, not only as a succession of emperors and battles.
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