Education and Work
Irfan Habib studied at the Aligarh Muslim University School and then completed his B.A. and M.A. from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), where he came first class first in history. He was the editor of the student journal of the history department of the university. Later he completed his D.Phil. from New College, Oxford under the supervision of Dr. C.C. Davies.
He was Professor of History at Aligarh from 1969–91, as well as Co-ordinator/Chairman of the Centre of Advanced Study in History, AMU, during 1975-77 and 1984-94. Prof.Habib is presently appointed as Professor Emeritus at the Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University. Habib has worked on the historical geography of Ancient India, the history of Indian technology, medieval administrative and economic history, colonialism and its impact on India, and historiography.
Amiya Kumar Bagchi describes Habib as "one of the two most prominent Marxist historians of India today and at the same time, one of the greatest living historians of India between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries."
Professor Sumit Sarkar says:"Indian Historiography, starting with D.D. Kosambi in the 1950s, is acknowledged the world over - wherever South Asian history is taught or studied - as quite on a par with or even superior to all that is produced abroad. And that is why Irfan Habib or Romila Thapar or R.S. Sharma are figures respected even in the most diehard anti-Communist American universities. They cannot be ignored if you are studying South Asian history."
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