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As Marxist scholar and historian, Irfan Habib has been a towering presence on the Indian intellectual scene for over four decades. His truly formidable intellectual reputation, already firmly established in the sixties with the publication of the The Agrarian System of Mughal India, gained in depth in the succeeding years as the boundaries of professional specialization were broken. Habib’s intellectual project broadened to cover the entire area of Indian ...
Economic debates in independent India have been wide-ranging, of the highest quality and intellectually exciting; there is no other country that can match India in this respect. This volume brings together the major economic debates that have taken place in the fifty years since India's independence and reflect the important phases in her economic development. The initial chapters, by Terence Byres, consider the genesis of institutions which made these ...