Amit Kumar Gupta

Amit Kumar Gupta has been researching and writing on issues of modern Indian history for several years now. His publications include North-West Frontier Province Legislature and the Freedom Struggle 1932–47 (1976), Between a Tory and a Liberal: Bombay under Sir James Fergusson 1880–85 (1978), and The Agrarian Drama: The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India 1934–51(1996).

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Rustom Bharucha

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Aijaz Ahmad

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Ari Sitas

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Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

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Marie-Monique Robin

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Sashi Kumar

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Kumkum Sangari

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Anand Chakravarti

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Nyla Ali Khan

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Gautam Bhatia

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S. Irfan Habib

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Aparajita Bakshi

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Sumangala Damodaran

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Paritosh Sen

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Michael T. Clark

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Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 15561707 (1963; revised edition 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982)

Ashok Mitra

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Megha Kumar

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Vijay Kumar Thakur

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Ruth Rosengarten

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Noam Chomsky

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Himani Bannerji

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Timur Kuran

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Sudhanva Deshpande

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Uma Rani

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Amit Kumar Gupta

Amit Kumar Gupta

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