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Celebrating a Study of India’s Agrarian History
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This special essay marks the fiftieth anniversary of Irfan Habib's *The Agrarian System of Mughal India (1556–1707)* by reviewing the book's scope, source base, reception, and the substantial changes made in its 1999 second edition. Moosvi argues the work remains a landmark whose revised edition has been under-noticed by reviewers despite its important reinterpretation of the village community.
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- Habib's 1963 book (454 pages) was widely acclaimed: Tapan Raychaudhuri called its publication one of the rare occasions that "stir the turbid and yet extensive waters of Indian historiography," and Percival Spear described it as "a brilliant achievement in breadth and depth by a still young scholar." Its novelty lay in an integrated scope covering production, consumption, trade, famine, agrarian rights, taxation and administration, and in a fundamental extension of the source base to Persian manuscripts, archival documents, travellers' accounts and modern official literature.
- Criticism was tempered: many Indian historians held that Mughal conditions were described "in much harsher terms than was warranted by the evidence," that the oppressive nature of the Mughal state was overstated; M. Athar Ali disputed excessive exploitation and peasant revolts, and J. F. Richards rejected the agrarian-crisis thesis "in toto."
- The 1999 second edition (548 pages, nearly 100 pages longer) retained the original structure except Chapter IV ("Village Community"), which was "entirely recast and greatly enlarged"; Habib states his views on the village community "changed substantially," no longer treating differentiation and internal oligarchy as signs of the community's disruption and decline.
- Chapter 9, "The Agrarian Crisis of the Mughal Empire," remained largely the same but added a caveat about "the universal propensity to contrast the grim present with a rosier past" and a new recognition of the rebelling peasants' ideological backwardness. The second edition drew almost no reviews (few in India, none abroad), though a paperback followed the next year and there have been at least eight reprints since.
Methods
- This is a historiographical review essay, not an empirical study; it analyses the content, reception and revisions of Habib's book rather than presenting new primary data.
- It draws on published reviews and responses (Raychaudhuri 1965; Spear 1965; Pignatelli 1964–65; Athar Ali 1966; Richards 1993) and on close comparison of passages from the 1963 and 1999 editions.
- Main analysis is qualitative: juxtaposing first- and second-edition passages, tracing Habib's engagement with Marxist historiography, and assessing the second edition's additions and omissions.
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- The paper states that the second edition "offers no improvement on the first edition" on gender, retaining "the unspoken assumption that one can ignore the treatment meted out to women as being outside the scope of agrarian history," despite Habib's own 2000 essay on medieval gender history.
- It also notes Habib's "avoidance of any direct debate with his critics," with Raychaudhuri's critique not directly addressed and absent from the Bibliography; the author herself calls these "trivial complaints."
- Evident from the text (not stated as a limitation by the author): the essay is explicitly celebratory and the author notes her own prior involvement, having been "perhaps the first to seek some modifications" to Habib's agrarian-crisis thesis (Moosvi 1985), which may colour the assessment.
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“As I have already suggested, acclaim was tempered by criticism in the scholarly responses to ASMI.”
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“These data also show that there was no difference in such matters between the centre and the periphery of the empire.”
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“The year 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Irfan Habib's The Agrarian System of Mughal India (1556-1707) (Habib 1963; henceforth ASMI).”
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“There was a spate of reviews, almost all favourable, in historical journals in India and abroad.”
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“A very large amount of information has been added from a huge mass of new evidence, and practically all the evidence used earlier has been critically re-examined, and large portions of the text extensively rewritten.”
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“Secondly, there was a fundamental extension of the source-base: Habib went to an impressive range of Persian manuscripts and archival documents, travellers' accounts and modern official literature, scouring them for all kinds of information.”
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“An integrated study of all these phenomena and inter-relationships was absent from earlier work.”
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“The first was its extensive scope, its attempt to cover all aspects of agrarian life, production, consumption, trade, and famine, and to go on to such issues as the layers of agrarian rights of peasants and zamindars, and the state's taxation and administrative systems -all ending, finally, in an interpretation of the process of change within the agrarian order.”
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“In the Appendices to his book, Habib established the values of units of measures, weights, and money, which are essential for any statistical work on Mughal India.”
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“The 548-page reincarnation of ASMI is nearly 100 pages longer than the original edition.”
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“There was a strong view, especially among Indian historians, that conditions in Mughal India had been described by the author in much harsher terms than was warranted by the evidence;”
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“The same argument is again put forward, with quotations from successive writers, that things were getting worse as compared to previous times (ibid., pp.371-73).”
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“It was a matter of surprise to many that Irfan Habib did not let ASMI be reprinted or issued in a revised edition for as many as 36 years, so that the original edition of 1963 soon became a rarity.”
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“More importantly, there is now an explicit recognition of the ideological backwardness of the rebelling peasants.”
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“Another grouse one could have is related to Habib's avoidance of any direct debate with his critics.”
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“Very few journals in India, and none abroad, have cared to review it.”
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“The important new interpretation of the village community has gone largely unnoticed, not to speak of the numerous refinements introduced in the formulations of the first edition.”
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“One aspect in which the second edition of ASMI offers no improvement on the first edition is on the question of gender.”
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“The points raised by Tapan Raychaudhuri in his long critique, published in Enquiry (Raychaudhuri 1965), are not directly addressed, and his paper does not appear in the book's Bibliography.”
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“Neither of these two points is touched upon in the second edition of ASMI.”
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“While he is punctilious in acknowledging any contribution to the subject under consideration, in however minor a detail (for example, see the note on mawas; Habib 1999, p. 379), this courtesy is not always extended to scholars who tend to disagree with him on major issues.”
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“Other critics, like M. Athar Ali and J. F. Richards, do appear in the Bibliography, but their views, as well as mine, on the agrarian crisis have not been deemed worthy of explicit notice in the book.”
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“His conclusion was that the economy had a large sector of commodity production and a high degree of monetisation, yet without any noticeable potentiality of capitalist development (Habib 1969b and1971).”
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“J. F. Richards, in his New Cambridge History of India volume, The Mughal Empire, after fairly accurately describing Habib's argument, rejected it in toto, but more on the basis of statements made ex cathedra than by demonstration from contrary evidence (Richards 1993, pp. 291-92).”
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“The book was a revised and enlarged version of a D. Phil.thesis submitted in 1958 at the University of Oxford, where the author had gone on a Government of India scholarship from 1955 to 1958.”
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“This enabled him to establish many points of detail and meanings of technical terms, besides clarifying various modes of administrative practices, which had remained obscure or even unknown to his predecessors.”
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“The thesis itself, however, is an attempt to describe the agrarian situation in Mughal times with a view to finding out how and where it would fit in a Marxist framework, rather than a direct application of the conventional Marxist framework to the historical situation.”
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“In his preface he explains that this is due to limitations of space; he has offered his evidence, so let the reader decide between him and his critics (whom, in most cases, the reader is left to trace for himself).”
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“The fact, however, that the publishers issued a paperback edition the very next year of its publication, and that there have been at least eight reprints since then, suggests that the book has an increasing number of readers (despite the lack of translation of the revised edition into any of the Indian languages) and is bound to make its influence felt on Indian historiography.”
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“secondly, the sub-exploitation of women by men of the exploited classes was a major ideological means of binding the men to the existing social order.”
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“It continues with the unspoken assumption that one can ignore the treatment meted out to women as being outside the scope of agrarian history.”
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“He made two important points in the essay: first, the exploitation of women in medieval India often took the form of assigning them some of the hardest forms of manual labour, such as flour-milling, carrying bricks, and spinning (which causes great strain to the fingers);”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Moosvi, S.
- Corresponding author
- Moosvi, Shireen
- Venue
- Review of Agrarian Studies
- Publisher
- Foundation for Agrarian Studies
- Published
- 2013-12-31
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 105-112
- ISSN
- 2248-9002 (ISSN-L)
- 2249-4405
- OpenAlex
- W2276604640
- Semantic Scholar
- ba481e04a2c8652e32671480ffb40f7b30f9ce3c
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- ageconsearch.umn.edu
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Review of Agrarian Studies (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Review of Agrarian Studies (submittedVersion)
- The journal (submittedVersion)
- AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
- Keywords
- agricultural history, agrarian studies
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