Harbans Mukhia

Harbans Mukhia (born 1939) is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is medieval India.

Biography

He received his Bachelors in Arts (BA) in history in 1958 from Delhi University and then earned his doctorate from Department of History, Delhi University in 1969. Mukhia worked at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi as Professor of Medieval History at the Centre for Historical Studies. He was rector of JNU from 1999 to 2002 and retired in February 2004.

Honors and awards

• Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla (1971)
• Homi Bhabha Fellowship (1979–1981)
• Directeur d’Étude Associé, EHESS, Paris, 1980-2003 (a month every year)
• UGC National Lecturer (1985–1986)
• UGC National Fellow (1991–1993)
• Visiting Professor, The British Academy, London, February–March, 1993
• Senior Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (1997)
• Fellow, IDPAD, University of Amsterdam, October 2004.

Books

As author

• The Mughals of India (Peoples of Asia) ISBN 9780631185550
• Perspectives on Medieval History ISBN 9780706963878
• Historians and Historiography During the Reign of Akbar ISBN 9780706904444
• Issues in Indian History, Politics and Society ISBN 978-93-5002-010-4
• Exploring India’s Medieval Centuries: Essays in History, Society, Culture and Technology ISBN 978-93-5002-047-0

As editor

• Feudalism and Non-European Socieites (Special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies, 12) T. J. Byres, Harbans Mukhia (Editor) ASIN B0017DM8SQ
• Religion, Religiosity, and Communalism; Praful Bidwai, Harbans Mukhia, and Achin Vanaik Bidwai ASIN B001NJD892
• French Studies in History: The Inheritance Harbans Mukhia, Maurice Aymard (Editor) ISBN 9780861318926

'The Feudalism Debate ISBN 9788173042843

• French Studies in History: The Departures ISBN 9780863110887

Festschriften

• Rethinking a Millennium: Essays for Harbans Mukhia: perspectives on Indian history from the 8th to the 18th century (Hardcover); editor Rajat Dutta ISBN 9788189833367