Economic History of India
AD 1206-1526
The Period of the Delhi Sultanate and the Vijayanagara Empire
Irfan Habib
Tulika Books; 250 pages; Rs 280
This is the 14th in a 36-volume project on the history of medieval India planned by the scholar Irfan Habib under the aegis of the Aligarh Historians Society. Its objective is to provide an “authentic” and “evidence-based narrative of the social and economic conditions of human beings in medieval times”. The author has adopted the political economy approach and, on the basis of method of the materialistic interpretation of history, has presented his story in three well-researched chapters.
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